Reborn Zombie Chapter 1: 1, a 13 tzameti fanfic

When a normal human suddenly dies and enters another world with the almighty cheat, their very own system, what do you think would happen? They will rise above every other being and soar the skies, for they will become an unstoppable force that brushes through the entire world, causing waves... Or so it normally goes, right? After Victor dies, he did get transmigrated, but it wasn't as a rich young master or some character with unfathomable potential. NO. He woke up as a random dungeon mob in another world...

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'How did this happen?… How did my life become like this?… Ahh, yes. It all started on that day.'

…

Victor used to be just like every other person, normal. He finally graduated from University after six years, even though his course was a four years course. The place his parents lived, their family house, was close to his school, 4 hours of driving and it's home sweet home. "I'm finally done with this shit."

"You're not leaving now are you?!" A beautiful young lady said to Victor from a distance. Her and a small group of her friends were coming out of a building in the school when she sighted Victor. 'Shy Victor, was he trying to escape just now?'

"Oh, uh, yeah!" Victor looked around slowly to check if people were looking. Just then, his voice was loud since he shouted, so he moved closer to the girl before he said another word. "I was thinking of going home now. If I leave now, I might be able to get there before it get's dark.

…

'If only I left then. If only I didn't listen to her.'

…

"Oh come on, you can't leave today!" The girl said.

"Hey hey, reduce your voice." Victor said as his eyes scanned the surrounding to see whether people were looking.

"There'll be a party later tonight at that famous club west of town, you have to be there."

"You know I don't do parties and stuff like that."

"Come on, for me? DO it for me." 'There's no way I'm letting you go that easily.'

…

'If I had been just a little selfish.'.

…

"Taxi! 10 Bottles." Victor told the driver the name of the club as he sat.

As they drove away, the taxi stopped on the way to carry another person. The taxi continued driving, but after some time it deviated from it's original path. 'This isn't the right way.' Victor thought, but remained quiet. As they kept going further away from the actual place, Victor started getting suspicious and could no longer keep quiet. "Hey sir! This isn't the right way. Don't you know where 10 Bottles is?"

"Shut the fuck up and sit still." The man sitting beside him who joined him in the taxi said while holding a knife to his neck.

Victor sat back down slowly and remained silent for a while. "What is the meaning of this?" He said.

"The next time you talk, your neck goes." The man replied.

After the taxi had gotten far enough for the men, the driver drove them off road and after some time, they arrived at a spot with rocky ground.

"Bring him out. Let's get on with this asap, I got better places to be." The driver said while exiting the vehicle.

The man behind opened the door and dragged Victor out. As Victor saw that he wasn't tied and the men only had a knife, he immediately made a run for it, summoning all the speed he used when representing the track field team to run as fast as he can. If he was fast enough, the two men wouldn't be able to catch him, he would not be dying that day.

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The sound of a gunshot rang out through the place as Victor's body fell to the ground. He wasn't dead, but the hollow-point used on his leg did a nasty job.

"Alright kid, I got a kid your age so I always hate to do this, so I'll make it snappy."

The adrenaline in Victor's body had suppressed the pain from his torn leg, so he didn't shout or anything, just some heavy breaths here and there.

"You messed with the wrong guy's girl, or, as I know, it probably happened that she messed with you. She has that bad habit, even though she knows how it goes." The driver said while changing the pistol's cartridge.

"So it was Kassie."

"Yup."

"Hey, the rain is coming, don't you think you should skip your talking today?."

"That's right. Well! Farewell boy, say hello to my wife for me."

'If only I didn't listen to that bitch.. Too late now anyway. I wonder if it'll be heaven I'll be going to, or hell.' As Victor thought in a solemn voice while basking in the comfort from the darkness that surrounded him, a bright white light shown over his eyes, but as weird as it felt, he couldn't move his body, so he unreactive.

As the light ceased, he could feel a sensation in his body different from the soothing one he felt moments ago, and it wasn't at all soothing, just weird. 'It feels as if I'm standing, somehow. Do I have a body? At least I should be able to open my eyes right?.' … 'Nope, I… Oh, oh, they're opening, slowly…'

After his eyes opened completely, what he saw shook him a bit, but also confirmed one thing, 'I went to hell huh?'

Surrounding him were at least 15 undead, zombies that unnaturally resembled one another, and the fact that he was in their midst confused and frightened him to a certain extent. He could tell he was there, but at the same time he couldn't control himself, and felt like he was just a spectator in the body. As the head turned, Victor noticed something, and that was the fact that they were in some kind of cave or underground. Also, he didn't really feel like he was in hell. There was no fire, no endless screams of pain and suffering, and there were no demons around.

'What exactly is this place?'

As they kept walking, something appeared before his eyes, 'is this what I think it is? Are you kidding me?' 'I've seen this concept in some manga I've read before, but I still can't believe it. Is this a gaming interface panel? It looks like one, but why's it blank in many places?' Just as Victor was thinking, something appeared on the interface.

[Welcome..]

[Initiating System]

[System Online]

[…]

After a slight delay, some information was displayed on a system panel before Victor's eyes.

Level: 1(experience bar)

Name: Victor Witts

Race: Human

Class:

Title:

Hp: 100

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Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 10

Agility: 12

Sense: 6

Vitality: 8

Intelligence: 10

remaining stat point: 0

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

[ERROR] [ERROR] [ERROR]

The system went haywire as it showed the red error message that kept blinking while the buzz sound pierced Victor's ears. He tried to close his ears, but his hands wouldn't move. 'What's happening?!!' The panel went blank and everything displayed on it disappeared.

[System Error Rectified]

Level: 1(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie)

Class:

Title:

Hp: 50

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 6

Agility: 5

Sense: 15

Vitality: 2

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 0

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'No shit, I'm so slow, everything adds up now. I got isekaied!'

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'This is totally unreal, I legit got isekied, and this panel must be my cheat in this world, unless others also have one too.' Victor said in his mind as he studied the floating panel and the writings that were written on it.

'Level 1 huh? I guess that is to be expected since everything starts at level 1. Name… Zomebie#2314?' Victor had only seen the zombie around him, and although he was unable to check himself because he didn't have control of his body, he had suspected something along the lines, but not that he was one himself.

'Race… These stats are a little… There's nothing to say about this, it's just terrible.'

Victor continued looking at the panel for a while thinking about something, how to close the panel. Since he couldn't move, using his hands was out of the question, and there was no close or x anywhere on the panel. After a while, he remembered something and for the first time tried to use his mind to close it. It wasn't how he expected it to work, but he was able to close it through that method. 'If I had known, I would have read more novels and watched more anime.'

…

According to Victor's record, it had been close to a day since he came here, but being unable to control himself, he couldn't explore the place as he wanted. All he could do was be a spectator and think of things to do after he regain his consciousness.

'This has become boring now. It's being more than 34 hours since I got here, but still nothing.' Just as he was lamenting on his situation, Julius sighted a pack of wolves with burning tails. 'Those are some strange wolves. I think it'll be better to refer to them as monsters, seeing as we are in this cave or very possibly, a dungeon.

Victor's group continued slouching forward as they drew closer to the wolf pack, just as they have been doing. Victor was unsure how the situation would play out as he saw the wolves' hostile behaviour. There was the possibility that there would be no confrontation since they were all mobs in the dungeon, but that was only if the system in place worked like in games. The wolves could also attack if this is not a game set up, besides, there are games where monsters might attack each other.

As his group of about 8 Zombies drew closer to the pack, the growls got louder and following that, the two zombies in front of the group dashed towards the wolves with their hands held out a bit while screeching all the way. Wasting no time, the wolves responded, and even before the zombies got to them, they pounced on them, ripping off their heads and limbs even before the zombies could react.

'This is insane. It was that easy?' Victor thought to himself as he tried to control his body to move and run away. 'I have to get out of here somehow, I have to. I can't die like this! Not yet!' He was closer to the rear of the group, so now he had three more zombies before him before the wolves got to him.

The wolves paused for a while after doing away with the first two that charged forward, then it seemed they decided to just clear the easy prey to take care of future disturbance as one wolf dashed forward with speed. They probably saw that one of them would be enough for the job, as the rest remained behind.

The third zombie went for the wolf, but got it's hand torn off by the wolf's claw, followed by it's head. The fourth zombie got it's head cut off, and the fifth followed, and then Victor's turn had reached. As his got his head torn off, a system message popped into his vision, but he could not read it because of the instant death.

'So this is how I die huh? I didn't suck to be a zombie as I thought it would, it's all good.' He's vision went black and then he felt like he was losing his consciousness, and then -.

[You have been revived due to the effects of the dungeon]

The system message wrote. It was the first thing Victor saw as he opened his eyes. 'Effect of the dungeon? what's that?' Victor said in his head as he's eyes opened. 'Good thing is I'm still alive, is that even a good thing?' While he stood idle talking to himself in his head, 7 other zombies spawned near him.

'Something feels weird.' Victor noticed something off about his body, for some reason, he could feel himself and something else creepy about his body. He turned his head in a bit of shook and look around, and it felt natural just like the body he was used to..

'What's that eerie feeling I'm having?' As he checked his body, he saw something that had been going over his head all the while. He's body was pale with wounds everywhere and maggots constantly going in and out of his body. 'At least I don't feel them crawling everywhere.'

The zombies that spawned close to him immediately came together to form a small group and started their patrol. Victor contemplated whether or nor to follow them. He could move on his own now, so he didn't have to follow, so he went the opposite way.

As he walked, he noticed that he had a limp in his steps, so he checked and saw the huge dent on his ankle and heel. 'How am I even able to walk? Guess being a Zombie has its perks.' He fantasized about what would happen when he met humans countless times already, but the only outcome he could visualize was being attacked on the spot.

Just as he was still in thought of what would happen and what to do if he met another monster, he heard footsteps coming from a distance. 'It seems to be coming from that chamber. Should I go there or just run?'…

As he got to the front of the small chamber, he saw four people inside that had their back turned against the entrance. 'People! I would be good if I could talk to them, or at least say something that would keep them from attacking.'

"Zombie!! It's a Zombie! Shoot it now!" One of them said as soon as he saw Victor.

'No! wait!'

[You died]

[You have been revived due to the effects of the dungeon]

'Damn! I'm so weak. How can I die after only one shot?' 'Status.'

Status

Level: 1(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title:n0𝔳𝗲𝑙𝐮𝓈𝒷.𝐂0𝓶

Hp: 50

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 6

Agility: 5

Sense: 15

Vitality: 2

Magic: 0

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 0

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'No shit, some low rank zombie is what I am. Leveling up should fix that right? But being one of the weakest monster in this dungeon, how am I supposed to do that if I die on the first shot!'

Following that incident, he died about twenty more times. After his 20th death, he had the best Idea he had thought of since he arrived in this world. Since he was the weakest monster in the dungeon, it would be impossible to level up, basically a fool's errand. Instead, he would attack his fellow weak zombies, truly genius.

'The next time I die and get respawned, I'll carry out this plan. Let's check what the system was about earlier, a notification popped, but I couldn't read it.' Victor said in his head as he stood there on the spot he just spawned, this time just him. This time, without speaking and just thinking about it, the system panel appeared.

Level: 1(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title: True Zombie[…]

Hp: 50

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 6

Agility: 5

Sense: 15

Vitality: 2

Magic: 0

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 0

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'Notifications.'

[You have acquired a title due to your achievement]

'What achievement? Title?' He returned to check what it was.

Level: 1(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title: True Undead […]

Hp: 50

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 6

Agility: 5

Sense: 15

Vitality: 2

Magic: 0

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 0

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'True undead. Sounds kinda cool? What does it do?'

[True Undead]

As one who has achieved something that should be impossible, DYING and resurrecting countless times, as an undead, you have shown your thirst of immortality, and have been granted it.

Effect: When you die you will be revived 24 hours later at a random location within a 200 metres radius from where you die.

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[True Undead]

As one who has achieved something that should be impossible, DYING and resurrecting countless times, as an undead, you have shown your thirst of immortality, and have been granted it.

Effect: When you die you will be revived 24 hours later at a random location within a 200 metres radius from where you die.

'Does this mean I'm immortal? Being a zombie, I'm already dead, so I can no longer age. If I add this title, then I can't even be permanently killed. Hahaha haha. Have I become some kind of god?' Victor got excited by the thought as he dragged himself through the tunnel like part of the cave he was in at the moment.

For his plan to work, he would have to face off against his own kind… hard to say since he has the soul of a human, but he would have to kill a fellow low level zombie. With the plan set, there was only one problem, how he would go about the killing.

As if reincarnating into the body of a zombie wasn't bad enough, his zombie body had only one arm, and that arm was eaten up in many places. Unlike in movies, in reality, the muscles responsible for moving his arms that had rotted away made it impossible to move them. So, there was only one option left, to use his teeth. But this was also a problem.

Victor's zombie appearance was barely human in appearance. His skin was a bit bloated and stretched with wounds that were rotten with pus in some places, with a saggy jaw bone hanging on one side of his face with a rotten tongue. His clothes were mostly tattered and his eyes were a milky shade, and yellowish in the pupils. These rotten parts hung out as though they would fall off, some rotten body parts fall off with time as he walks, oblivious to any loss.

Biting was also a problem because of his defective mouth part. 'Coupled with the fact that I can't even talk, I also can't gain exp.'

Victor wandered about aimlessly looking for something to kill him, and that was when he found a large red lizard, 'perfect.' Slowly increasing his walking speed into a sprint, he charged towards the lizard. The moment he got within a certain range of the lizard, it grabbed him by the torso and easily snagged him in apart.

Moments later, Victor spawned at a different location, and luckily this time, three other zombies spawned along with him.

'This, is just perfect.' He joined the three zombies and started patrolling around. As he was familiar with this route, he put his plan into action. 'I'll have to go right, so the one to the right should do.'

They kept walking until they got to a point where the road split into three paths, one leading forward and the other going left and right. As they got to the junction, he used his hand to part and directed the zombie he had marked towards the road at the right side. Maybe because they were all monsters, or because they were both zombies, the zombie didn't react in any particular way and just kept moving. They continued walking, and along the way he directed where they went, and after sometime they got to a cliff.

'I hope this is high enough to kill it.' Victor said in his head as he pushed the zombie before him down the cliff. As he watched it fall, his leg gave in and he also fell together with the zombie. 'What the fuck! Isn't this a magical world? I've seen skeletons walking, but for some fucked up reason, I still have to follow the laws of biology!'

[You died].

[You have been revived due to the effects of the dungeon]

'Tut. I'm so unlucky. Let's check the status window.'

Status

Level: 1(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title: True Undead […]

Hp: 50

Mp: 0n0𝑣𝞮𝐿𝔲𝓢𝒷.𝗰0𝓜

[Stat]

Strength: 6

Agility: 5

Sense: 15

Vitality: 2

Magic: 0

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 0

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'The experience bar is half way filled now. I works. I can get stronger, and I won't need to be stuck in this cycle of dying and reviving again.'

Victor's experiment was a success, leveling up was possible. 'Maybe when I get out of here I'll be able to make a mechanic arm and body part to support my body that's falling apart.

Since the experience bar filled up to half after killing one zombie, killing another one would mean leveling up, so he set out in search for his next prey. Not long after, Victor took two zombies to the cliff and just like before, he pushed them off the cliff and stayed away from the edge.

…

[You leveled up]

[You are now level two]

'Awesome!' Using his mind, he opened the status window.

Level: 2(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title: True Undead […]

Hp: 50

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 7

Agility: 6

Sense: 16

Vitality: 2

Magic: 0

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 3

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

[After every level up, you will get an automatic stats boost in three of your prominent stats. The amount of boost will vary]

'Ok, I think I get it. Now, I'll have to work like crazy if I want to rise up the ranks quickly.'

…

Time passed by quickly, and with Victor doing the same thing over and over again while stuck inside a dungeon as a mob, he lost track of time, no longer keeping record of how long he had been there.

'Exactly how long has it been now since I got here..? I think, about four months now? Or five. I, am not sure, but it should be close to that. Let's check my status.'

Level: 8(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title: True Undead […]

Hp: 100

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 16

Agility: 13

Sense: 20

Vitality: 4

Magic: 0

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 21

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'I'm progressing at a slow pace, but it's like I expected. I'll keep the free stat point for when I might really need them. Ok, time to continue my hunt.'

…

Somewhere in the dungeon.

"What's the cause of this anomaly? It isn't too serious, so maybe I should just ignore it for now. I can always fix it if it becomes serious."

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'This life I'm living is really hard.' Victor thought while leading some zombies off the rail again.

'Even the so called -fellow humans-, just how many times have I died to humans in this dungeon? Even when I don't attack, they come after me. Can they just show a little sympathy? Heh. Good thing is I don't lose exp when I die, if not, it would have been really… I don't even want to imagine that sort of scenario.'

As the two zombies he took fell to their deaths, he received a message from the system.

'This painstaking process. Status.'

Level: 9(experience bar – almost filled up)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie – Lowest rank)

Class:

Title: True Undead […]

Hp: 120

Mp: 0

[Stat]

Strength: 17

Agility: 13

Sense: 22

Vitality: 5

Magic: 0.

Intelligence: 0

remaining stat point: 25

[Skill tab]

Passive:

Active:

'Almost time to level up. I just have to kill a few more now and that'll be it.' Victor said in his head as he turned around to go find more prey.'

Tud *Tud *Tud

Victor heard faint sounds of footsteps coming from behind him.

As he turned, he couldn't help but to be filled with joy. A full zombie group was passing by. 'Oh heavens, how you show me favour some times.'

He hastily walked up to them, and one by one changed their direction towards the cliff. As the zombies got to the cliff, they stopped, but Victor just pushed them over the cliff to their deaths. He got the system notification of receiving exp as usual, then, the one he had been waiting for appeared.

[You Leveled Up]

[You Have Reached Level 10]

[Conditions For Evolution Met]

'Condition? Evolution?'

[Starting Evolution Process]

'What's going on? My body. It feels weird.'

[You will loose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable spot within the next 10 minutes]

'Isn't it supposed to give me an option of whether I want to evolve? And why the short time. How am I supposed to find a good hiding spot in short little time!?'

Just then, he remembered a place he came across before that he had joking thought would be a good place to hide from enemies. As he has never needed to hide since he came to this dungeon, he never really bothered about it, but today, he was happy he had come across that crack in the dungeon wall.

'Good thing it's not far from here, I'll make it in time.'

Victor got to the spot he had remembered, and managed to squeeze himself deep enough into it. As he went deeper, he noticed that there was actually an opening at the end of the crack. When he got out of the other side, he saw himself in a small space the size of a small room, 'perfect.'

[Starting Evolution]

[You will now loose consciousness as evolution begins]

…

'Ahhh… I feel weak and tired.. Wait, tired? I forgot about that. Seems like it's been a while. The evolution should be complete since I'm awake right? And something tells me it's been a while since I was out.'

As Victor opened his eyes, the first thing he was greeted with was a system notification.

[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into a Zombie]

[Collect more evolution material for next evolution]

'Ok? SOmething new.'

[Gained new skill: Corpse Manipulation LVL1 (Active)]

[Gained new Title: One Who is Favoured by 'The Process']

[Gained new skill: All Title (Passive)]

[You are the first to reach level 10 without utilizing your bonus stat points and skills]

[Two rewards have been given]

[You are able to use your bonus stats to level up your skills]

[Your remaining bonus stat points will be doubled]

Glitch Glitch

'Hey, why's it glitching? I just got the goodies too…'

[You are exempted from skill rank]

'No SHIT. This feeling. It feels so good to get multiple rewards all at once. This last one though, did it really require the glitching process? This system is too dramatic. Status.'

Status

Level: 10(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie)

Evolution Material: 0

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 200

Mp: 10

[Stat]

Strength: 20

Agility: 18

Sense: 24

Vitality: 10

Magic: 1

Intelligence: 2

remaining stat point: 56

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-1

'Wow. Time to see what all these do.'

Victor then focused on the new title he got, and as he did, it collapsed and displayed more information.

[One Who is Favoured by 'The Process']

As one who has struggled to get stronger, rising ten levels by killing the same creature using the same method throughout, the world favours your efforts. No matter how high you go in your level, and how much stronger you get, you will not be affected by the amount of experience gained after killing an enemy. You will always receive the amount you are due

'Hmm? I have t read this again, I don't quite get it.' …

'I kind of get it, but let's keep that for later. Next.'

[All Title]

All titles will remain equipped all times, at the same time.

[Corpse Manipulation]

You are able to control two undead creatures of lower levels than yourself.

Level: 1

'Wow. I'm becoming more capable by the moment. All the grinding was worth it.'

As Victor picked himself up, he noticed a different feeling about his body. The evolution had changed him physically. Before, he was more delicate and like zombies from movies. Not much to tell about.n0𝓥𝞮𝓁𝔲𝑠𝔟.𝔠0𝓂

Now, his skin was pale and bloodless in complexion. His appearance appeared more human than monster or undead creature, if someone didn't look well or saw him from a distance, they might think he is a normal human. His missing hand was no longer missing, and all the places on his body that had rotten skin or bones popping out, were no more. And most importantly, the inborn taste of a zombie to eat fresh flesh he had been struggling with since he found himself in this world had died down significantly, that it was as good as non-existent.

"Ahh…" A low rough voice rang within the small room Victor was in.

He paused for a moment, surprised at what he had just heard. He touched his mouth, the parts of his face that were rotten and falling out were all fixed and normal now.

'I just produced a sound. Does that mean I can talk now?' He thought as he gently placed his fingers on the lower part of his mouth and throat.

"Ahh… I- I. can talk." He smiled a bit as the sounds left his mouth.

He went on to make random sounds of different pitch sounds and tones.

'I like that I can talk now, but… there's anyone to talk to.'

"Heh…"

'I already felt like a psycho talking to myself in my head. I guess doing it out loud won't be that bad.'

"Let's go test out my new skill."

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"I finally have my very own skill! And I can even talk." Victor said while listening to himself. He liked his voice. It wasn't anything special, in fact, it sounded a little raspy, but at least, he could talk now.

He came out of his confinement, and wasted no time in testing his new body. The only sadness he felt was that he would be unable to measure his growth. He couldn't exactly run before, so he doesn't know how fast he was with 10 points in agility, compared to now that he had 18.

"No need to cry about the past, let's just be that I can walk, don't you think?"

"…" Silence.

Victor usually spoke like this, as if there was an imaginary friend beside him listening. He didn't exactly have many friends, and when he finally did, he always felt like the third wheel in the group. So talking himself at time made the feeling of being lonely less apparent.

He now needed to find some zombies to test his new skills on. He walked around for a while, until he ran into a group of zombies. He checked his status window one more time to see his skill, but then realized that he did not know how to use the skills he had.

"How does this work?" Victor asked, while standing in the zombies' path. They just slouched the way forward, and since the pass way was small, their path was predetermined.

"Do I just will it with my mind? Or do I call it out loud?" Victor thought..

It was useless to just think about it, Victor thought, so he did the only thing that felt natural to him.

"Corpse Manipulation." He said while stretching his hand forward.

After about a second, one of the zombies stopped moving as he said those words. He instantly felt a connection between himself and the zombie, like a mental link.

[Number of corpses under control – 1]

"Wow." Victor muttered.

He then tried the second method he thought would be possible to use when activating a skill, or was it a spell? Anyone works.

Just like Victor speculated, the second method also worked. All he did was will the skill to activate, and it did. He had thought that since the system could read his thoughts, maybe he would also be able to activate the skill with his mind. Unless, he didn't have to say it in his mind, he could just activate the skill with a thought.

He controlled the zombie for a while, giving it simple commands, and also some more complex ones. He quickly saw the skill's limitations. Only simple commands like attack, move, and similar were available, anything more than that and the zombie would either remain unresponsive, or do something at random.

After a bit more of experimenting, he activated his skill on another zombie, and with a simple string of commands, sent them on their way to an eternal free fall. Moments later, he received the notifications.

5 exp

"Success!" This ha opened up a whole new market for victor. He could now remotely gain exp.

Victor praised himself a little after his small discovery and achievement, but it only lasted a while.

He had now gained his freedom, but what next? Where did he have to go? What was the next step now that he could do all he wanted? Maybe if he tried now, he would be able to exit the entrance he had found earlier? Last time he went there it proved impossible to leave, though.

"Alright, I'll do that next."

As Victor traced his steps to the place he had found the entrance previously, there was another thing he noticed. Unlike before, he no longer it seemed like he had now become a full zombie. His eyesight were unnaturally good in the dark, even in places where there was no light entering. He did not tire, no matter how much he ran, and his body was now way tougher than it was when adventurers would just crack it like egg shells.

It didn't take him long, as he had masterfully studied the routes in the dungeon. He got to the entrance, but there was nothing he could do. It was still impossible to exit. This had dampened Victor's mood a bit.

"Now what. What am I to do next?" He asked as he stared emptily at the entrance that seemed to have some kind of barrier preventing him from going out.

Just as he was trying to figure out a possibility, an idea entered his head. Victor was somewhat of an occasional gamer, though, if he was to play against the pros, he would probably bury them. He figured that he registered the appearance of adventurers entering the dungeon, and that this was really a dungeon. If so, doesn't that mean there would be a dungeon boss that when defeated the dungeon would close? He thought.

But what if he were the one to defeat it? Would the dungeon still close? Or will he be able to escape the dungeon before it does? He could find a way to disable the barrier before the boss died, if the boss had the control. His luck would be totally fucked ten times over if the world he was in was some kind of world where the dungeons were managed by the gods or some stupid cliché of the sort.

"That's also a possibility. That is also the only way for now. What I need now, though, is information." Victor thought as he rubbed his cold chin.

Just then, he heard several voices approaching the dungeon entrance, it was the chattering of adventurers.

'I have a plan. It should work quite well too.' Victor said, as he disappeared back into the dungeon.

…

After the adventurers entered the cave, he began tailing them, without the group of five even realizing it.

'This guys must be quite stupid if I do say so myself, and low level too. How can you be so oblivious to your surrounding? I'm not even camouflaging.' Victor said in his mind, as he thought back to his gaming days.n0𝓥𝞮𝓁𝔲𝑠𝔟.𝔠0𝓂

Even when he was playing a first person game, he would still turned around often to make sure his surrounding was clear. This guys had to be the total beginners not to know such basic things.

'Is there a way I can check their strength?' Victor questioned.

Once again, as though his thoughts were being read, the system responded, and a few boxes showed above the adventurer's head, individually. From what Victor saw, he totally felt like the fool for even tailing those total noobs.

[Level 2]

[Level 3]

[Level 5]

'What the fuck am I looking at exactly? This guys are total beginners, and the dare enter a dungeon?'

Victor had planned to take information from them, but now his gamer side was heated up. He needed to teach this guys some lesson as their predecessor.

'Is what I would have loved to do, but I can't let them leave this cave alive. The single information that I exist, a low level monster with intelligence would make plenty people's attention drawn here. I can't risk that.'

Victor made up his mind, which only took seconds. The fact that he was about to kill humans didn't seem to faze him too much. Maybe it was because of the countless humanlike zombies he had killed, or because he was now an undead, it was unclear. Either way, the adventurers weren't going to leave with their lives.

"Guys!"

"Guys!" Victor called out to the group of adventurers before him.

The adventurers turned casually, seeing that their group was complete. They thought maybe someone else might have entered the dungeon with them. To their surprise, however, it was a monster.

"Huh? Who is t… Monster!"

"What? Ahh! Monster! Kill it!"

'These guys are just too terrible.' Victor thought as he shook his head. The time wasted in talking could have been used to do something better, like attacking or even running away.

Victor had thought about it, and since he could handle them easily, and he needed the most sufficient way to extract information from them, he decided to not kill them for now.

Without giving room for the amateur adventurers to show him anymore grieving nonsense, he made his move.

"It's…" One of the adventurers was about to say something when Victor appeared before him. The next time his eyes closed, he had passed out.n0𝔳ℯ𝓛𝐮𝓈𝓫.𝓒0𝓂

In a similar fashion, he knocked out the other adventurers one after the other in quick secession. He was too fast for even the level 5 swordsman amongst them to react to his movements on time. The level 5 was the last to get knocked out, but he was also the one with shaky legs that looked like broom sticks on a generator.

Victor was a bit of a cautious type, maybe too cautious. He almost wouldn't attempt something if he knew he wasn't strong enough. Even, he sometimes would make sure that he could totally obliterate an opponent before he faced against them in battle.

Earlier, just to be on the safer side, Victor boosted some of his stats to make sure that he cleared any room for mistakes..

Status

Level: 10(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie)

Evolution Material: 0

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 200/200 245/245

Mp: 10/10 100/100

[Stat]

Strength: 20

Agility: 18 25

Sense: 24

Vitality: 10 20

Magic: 1 10

Intelligence: 2

remaining stat point: 56 30

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-1

With Victor's understanding of the system and stats, the effects of the individual stats were;

Strength: Measure of total physical strength. Increase in this stat increased attack damage and physical strength.

Agility: Measure of everything that has to do with speed and manoeuvrability. It affects speed, reaction, attack, and time perception.

Sense: Measure of the acuteness of the five senses. Affects reaction time, vigilance, overall awareness, accuracy, and time perception.

Vitality: Total health and physical condition of the player. Affects physic, health, recovery rate, and overall body condition.

Magic: This stat is straight forward. It affects the total magic capacity.

Intelligence: It affects the player's ability to understand and decipher complex situations and spells. An important stat regardless of the class of the player.

After knocking the adventurers out, Victor took them to another part of the dungeon, where the adventurers wouldn't recognise straight away even though they had raided the dungeon before. He couldn't do the job alone, so he used two zombies to bring the remaining three while he carried two.

Using the Corpse manipulation skill caused him one mana point for every corpse. Though, after the initial cost of activating the skill, there is no extra cost. He checked with the system to see how much stat points were needed to upgrade his level 1 Corpse Manipulation into level two, and to his surprise, he needed just one stat point to increase it to level two, which he did without a second thought.

"This is good enough." Victor said as he looked at the skill's description.

[Corpes Manipulation]

You are able to control 5 corpses of lower levels than yourself.

Level: 2

Mana cost: 1

No. Of Corpses: 2/5

"Hmm." Victor said as he thought about something crucial.

Victor had succeeded in kidnapping the adventurers, but he didn't have a way to restrict their movement. He didn't have ropes or binding spells to hold them in place, he had only one option left. "This is the only way." He said as.

The place he brought the adventurers was a spot that monsters didn't roam in, or bother checking. It was a dead end at the opposite side of the dungeon to the entrance, where he wouldn't be bothered by monsters trying to attack the adventurers while he was siphoning precious information.

He left them there with the two zombies he had under his control and moved out of that area. His goal was to find more. It didn't take any time at all, as zombies were the most common monsters in this dungeon. He was back in no time, with three other zombies following close behind him.

"This should be ok, right? I don't think so. But they wouldn't try anything funny since they know my strength. I'm sure." Victor said, as he ordered the five zombies to surround the adventures. He put them against a wall, so he and the zombies formed a semicircle around that wall.

"Hey. All of you, wake up…" 'Heh..' Seemed like getting them to wake you was even more troublesome that putting them to sleep.

After a while of trying, Victor managed to wake up all five of the adventurers, whose faces remained terrorized as they looked at him from below. Victor had always wondered what it felt like to look down on people. Now he knew. And although he always hated the feeling whenever it was done to him, he still felt quite comfortable doing it himself.

'This world. It's a place where we pay back the wrong done to use to other people.' Victor thought, as he saw the sorry expressions on the adventurers' faces.

"Alright. Now I'm going to be straightforward. I need information, which means. I need answers, good answers. If I don't get answers, I can't guarantee your lives. If you give me answers, I let you go." said victor, as he stared at the five before him, pupils gleaming with a bitter shade of red, as it faintly glowed at them.

They all stared for a while without saying a single word, just faint murmuring sound escaping the lips of some. The group had four boys and a girl. They all seemed to be in their middle or late twenties at most, but were still extremely weak.

"No-No one says anything.. We won't give you what you want, you monster. You caught us off guard last time, don't think you'll be lucky twice. One of the level 2s said. Victor applauded his confidence to oppose such odds in his mind, but…

"Huh?" Victor grumbled. He could not believe his ears.

'Does this guy really think that all of his team members being here is a joke? Well, thank you anyway..'

"Scapegoat number 1." He said in a passive manner, as he walked towards him casually.

The young man backed himself against the wall immediately and drew his daggers. 'An assassin.' Victor noted. The next second, the young man's dagger was driven all the way in, into his cranium, like some Halloween pumpkin. Blood dripped from his head, and onto his shirt, slowly, as his body slouched down the rocky dungeon wall.

Without wasting much time, and after confirming the message he had just sent to the others, Victor returned to his initial position in front of them.

"Will you cooperate?" He asked. The remaining adventurers shook their heads franticly, in confirmation.

"Good. Now this is how it's going to work. I'll ask you four questions, and anybody with the most knowledge concerning that question will speak for the group. If the answer is too shallow and not enough, there will be consequences, so be wise."

"Now, shall we get started?"

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"First question. Information on this dungeon. I want every information on this dungeon. From it's how strong, to what kind of monsters are here, resources, etc. Every single information." Victor was capable of facial expressions now that his flesh was almost normal, and complete. Despite that, he had been keeping a straight face when he was before the adventurers.

He had watched a lot of movies and anime, and he could feel that those characters that didn't show their expressions and emotions were usually the most dangerous. Unless it was some kind of romance/slice of life anime, this was the rule.

The adventurers kept silent for a while, before casting quick glances at each other, their eyes finally settled on the guy who was the only level 5 in their group.

'Ugg. These pussies!' He cursed in his mind.

Victor saw their eyes and where it was pointing, and he had also noticed that the level 5 was their leader, obviously. 'He should have the most knowledge, I guess?' Victor said mentally.

"Everyone seems to be looking at you. So, spill it. Unless you want to pay your respects to the yama of hell.." Victor said, as his cold blood eyes shimmered through the poorly lit room..

"Ye-yes. This is an unregistered dungeon that gained popularity not long ago, underground. It is said to house many good rewards too. Although it goes up to floor 50, the monsters are not as terrifying…" The level 5 adventurer went on in his explanation, and when he was finally done, Victor was able to gain a lot of useful information.

The dungeon Victor was in now is a newly formed dungeon with a cave-like environment. It had 50 floors, which was much. But the monsters weren't as high level, and the rewards were golden. Normally, the more the reward, the more dangerous the dungeon. But this one was different. This one gave good rewards, but less danger. Though, it was reported that after the 40th floor, the level of monsters does increase exponentially. Because of this, the final floor is still unreachable, and nobody ventures too deep.

According to the adventurers information, a certain group of people, who according to the adventurer were part of a guild, had entered the dungeon sometime ago in attempts to reach the final floor. Although the dungeon gave good rewards, if it wasn't cleared before 6 months, a phenomena known as a dungeon break would occur.

It had already been 3 months since this dungeon appeared, so efforts to close it have been made, and strong groups of people have started preparing for the expedition.

The monster types in the dungeon were different depending on the floors. From floor 1 – 5, undead roomed the place, and all of them were at most level 7. Victor could tell, as the zombies with him currently were all level 1 zombies, just like he was before. From 6 – 14, beast type monsters roomed the place, and their level was between 4 and 10. From 15 – 30, a mixture of insects and reptiles filled the place, with levels between 5 and 15. 31 – 39 went through an underground water system, so the monsters are mostly aquatic, with levels from 3 – 10. Above level 40, the last recorded was on the 41st floor, and the monster the adventurers who went there met was a monster whose level was 75.

With this information, Victor's next question presented itself. If level 75 was considered a high level, then what was the level of the top person in this world?

He wasted no time thinking about it himself, and asked the adventurers. The level 5 adventurer was the one who answered for the team, yet again.

According to what he said, this world Victor found himself was the worst type he would ever have wanted to be reincarnated in. If the top ranker in the world had a level of 235, that only confirmed his agonizing suspicion. This was a world with level functions resembling a broken Japanese manga world, where levels could reach 999, or in some severe cases, 9999.

In case one didn't know, rankers are individuals with levels above 90, or those one in a lifetime individuals with skills that didn't warrant them be a high level to be able to end a hoard.

'Ah, what is this?! Who brought me to such a world? It had to be one of those bored goddesses.' Victor cried in his heart.

After he finished crying, his heart was put at ease a bit. According to the adventurer, the person following behind was a level 127. This top ranker was only an anomaly kind of existence. Though, he was humanities only hope when a dungeon that threatened the existence of humans appeared, but for many years after that, he had not increased in level.

"I see. That means there's a real big problem here. If at floor 42 the level is 75, one can only imagine how much stronger the boss monster is." Victor said while rubbing his smooth chin.

In this world he was in, the boss monster of a dungeon was always protecting/guarding something, like a treasure, alongside the dungeon core. To close a dungeon, the core will need to be destroyed. If it is not destroyed, the monsters will keep spawning after some time, normally within a week or more.

"If the guy after the top ranker is only a level 127, the big guy might be needed." Victor said, still rubbing his chin. As to where a zombie learnt how to rub its chin, the adventurers could only wonder.

"Alright, last question. Why the fuck did you idiots enter this dungeon? Wouldn't the good stuff be at least after the initial floors? Can you really survive?"

"That.. After the first floor, valuable crystals start appearing, and not all of it has been taken, so we can still profit a bit." The adventurer answered hastily.

"…"

"Alright, that's all." Victor said. Before he could continue his sentence however, he was rudely interrupted.

"D-Does that mean we can go now!?" The only girl of the group said, her face rattled with a mixture of fear and expectedness.n0𝔳ℯ𝓛𝐮𝓈𝓫.𝓒0𝓂

'Humans really.. Heh..' Victor thought in his mind, as though he wasn't one himself in his pat life.

Well, Victor had always hated human nature and how people behaved. It wasn't surprising that he would say this.

"Of course, I always keep my word." Victor said, still with an un inexpressive tone and face. "Do say hi to the yama of hell for me. Tell him to sell my space in hell." Victor said, as the only sight of smile he showed the adventures blurred away before them, and next they were laying still on the floor with fist size holes through their chests and stomach.

There was no time for them to even react, nor cry in pain. They could only bleed out while only being able to mutter inaudible gibberish.

"Imagine trusting a monster that tell you that they'll let you go after giving them information. Pft, this ain't no beauty and the beast." As Victor made the joke, it dawned on him that he had forgotten to ask about the outside world, and what kind of period it was. The adventurers wore outfits that looked like the middle ages, but isn't that the style of dungeon clothes? Even in anime and manga.

SAO was so advanced, having neural-links, but the game world was still middle aged kind of style, Victor thought, as he couldn't help but sigh. 'I'll be sure to ask the next person I meet.'

If the group that killed him last was the same group that went to challenge the floors above 40, that means he would be meeting them very soon.

'Pay back will be sweet.'

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"Now, how to go about this. I should search them first."

Victor had just killed the adventurers, and the thought of raiding a dungeon was making his spirit burn with excitement. This was something he always read in manga and watched in anime, wishing he could partake in the experience. The only sad thing was that it was impossible. Dungeons didn't exist back on earth. But now…

He went through the adventurers belongings, and almost instantly found a map. At first, he didn't know that it was a map, because of the way the device looked. It was a cubical mechanic device with a red button on the side. After pressing the button, a holographic image of the entire floor appeared from the item.

"Wow, nice. It seems this world has advanced past my own earth. Maybe the outside has flying cars and giant mecha robots… Let's not think so much about it."

The device seemed to detail out the entire floor he was on presently, although there were some places he noticed were not on the map, it still did an overall ok job. A red dot that updated in real-time showed where the device was in the cave, therefore, where the person holding it was.

The hologram had a backlight of green, and the cave's layout and routes was imprinted on the hologram, like a paper map. Victor also saw that there were two points with a red and blue square respectively..

"If the red one is in the direction of the entrance, then the blue one should be for the door that leads to the next floor." Victor said, as he left the place where he had brought the adventurers.

He turned to observe the zombies, and noticed that they didn't rush to eat the corpses before them. Maybe it was because they were under his control? He thought. But even after he released one from his control, it still didn't rush to eat the corpse. This only meant that not all the knowledge he knew from his former earth were applicable here.

He was just about to leave, but then turned back towards the dead adventurers. "These guys came here to harvest some valuable ores and treasures, right? Then how did they plan on caring everything back with them?" Victor questioned as he walked closer to the corpses.

He couldn't underestimate this new world he now found himself in. If there were dungeons and holographic devices, doesn't that mean the existence of such a thing like a storage bag was possible? He simply had to quench his curiosity.

He started ravaging the lifeless bodies, searching for something unknown. Maybe it was because he was now an undead, but there was absolutely no feeling of regret or a reparation from his conscience after taking the lives of the adventurers. 'No need to think about it too much. It's killed or be killed in my case.' Victor said in his mind as he finally found something in the level five adventurer's waist.

"How did I not notice something so obvious?" Victor battered himself for missing the clear sight of something that hung there the whole time. There was no doubt, it was a storage bag. The looks fit perfectly with what he had thought it to look like.

Just as he was grinning widely after taking the storage bag, the system popped a notification out of nowhere. 'I haven't done anything though. Why am I getting a notification?'

Victor went ahead to check, and to keep it short, the system told him that he already had a system inventory, so he really didn't need the bag. This piece of information threw Victor off a bit.

Previously, he had made sure to check the system well, but he didn't find any other panel or function available except for his status screen. Now that he had been introduced to the inventory, he couldn't help but wonder if there were other regions that the system was yet to open up to him. Maybe a shop?

As he opened his status to check, he found that a new tab had appeared above the status panel that read [Inventory, there was also another one that read [Character] beside it. This [Character] was also a new one.

Victor wasted no time in checking out the new additions, and just like he expected, his inventory was empty. Though, what he didn't expect was that the inventory size was much. It had exactly 5000 boxes that he could store items. Since one box meant one item, and if some items were stackable, it meant that he had just been blessed.

Next was the character section. Just like a game, there were sections for each part of his body where he could strap a gear or item on. The sections were head, chest/body, legs/lower section, and arms. There was also provision for rings, which had two boxes respectively. Of course, all the boxes were currently empty. It seemed the system didn't recognize his current outfit as clothes, probably as base wears.

"This is good, but… Can't I just wear clothes normally? Do I need to use the system?" Victor wondered. To his question, there was only one way to find out.

He took the trouser of one of the adventurers and wore it. He was able to wear it without any problems, so he tried the second option and equipped it through the system. First, he had to move it into his inventory, then equip it by willing it to enter the lower section of the character set up. Luckily, the tabs could opened separately, so it was easy.

He equipped the trouser, and to his astonishment, it was equipped, but it didn't appear physically. This perk made Victor grin widely. This was too good. If this was how it is, doesn't that mean he can always walk around with his best equipment, and nobody would know? He could be naked and still remain invincible!

"Good. Very good." Victor said as he stood up.

He didn't mind taking the adventurers' shirts, as each had a hole through it. However, he unequipped his new trouser. It had no effects, so it would better be used as actual clothing than gear.

Finally, he left the place where the adventurers dead bodies were. n0𝗏𝔢𝓁𝑢𝒮𝓑.𝒸0𝑚

There was something he needed to check, and some questions he needed answers to.

It was quite obvious to Victor that levelling up his skills would be extremely costly. He needed to sacrifice some stat points to level up skills, but what about in later levels? The skill will only demand more stat points. He would need to constantly level up if he wanted to increase his skill's level. This was not at all cost efficient, so he wondered if there was another way.

"System, how much will it cost me to level up my skills in later stages? Victor asked.

[Depending on the skill, the amount required varies. The amount of state points required can range from 1 to 50, or more. Some skills may require more]

The system's answer wasn't at all comforting. Victor could only rub his chin while thinking. "Is there any other way for me to level up my skill?"

[There is. As a substitute for stat points, system coins can be used. However, once you choose to use coins, the option of using stat points will no longer be available to you]

"Coins huh? Was I right about the system having a shop? Probably. Why would there be a need for coins if not so?"

After a bit of deliberation, Victor accepted the use of coins over stat points, and just like that, one problem has been solved. Now, the next was..

"Evolution."

"System, tell me everything about this evolution feature." Victor was very curious about this evolution that had transformed him into a proper zombie, an even better one.

[Evolution helps transform your physical body into stronger forms that increases certain attributes and abilities. It is a faster and most efficient way to evolve yourself into a stronger being, directly skipping the long periods of time you would have to wait if you were to do it organically, and the mistakes and errors that may be involved. With the help of the system, the evolution process is carried with a hundred percent accuracy]

'I don't think this answers a lot. It's like telling me the same answer, but using different methods.' Victor said mentally.

[Don't be so quick to judge, I am not done]

'Was that exasperation in your tone? System with attitude.'

[Unlike your first evolution, the others from this point onward will be different. The system was able to carry out the first evolution because there was pre stored data about your form, coupled with the data gotten from some humans you bit, this current form was created. From now on, you will have to acquire enough material/sample for the system to study, to be able to commence an evolution]

"Hmm, and how do I get this sample and material?"

[By ingesting]

"You mean I have to eat whatever it is I want to.. you now.. How do I even refer to this whole process?".

[To simplify the process, an evolution tree has been created to better depict what the system is explaining]

Another system panel appeared before Victor's eyes, this one visibly larger than the others before it. On it, an image that resembled the roots of a tree begun from the top, and travelled a few centi-metres downward. At the beginning of this root, the word ZOMBIE was written, encapsulated in a rectangle that housed it.

"Seeing this diagram, I kind of get it now. Each of these roots signifies the various things I can evolve into, or that I will evolve into, and the zombie at the top is the base. I'm I correct?"

[Yes]

"Hmm, so what are the limitations of my evolution?" Victor asked, quite curious.

[Simply put, anything you can eat, you can evolve into, and anything you can't eat, you can't evolve into. Specifically, eating is not the problem; it just has to be swallowed]

"I see. So if there's a ghost or some shit like that, I won't be able to evolve into that. Interesting.

Evolution Material: 0

"And this means I have to eat whatever material until it reaches hundred right?"

[No. Each evolution requires a certain amount of evolution material to integrate into the new form. Therefore, if you had 100 evolution material for a human, after evolution the number will reduce, and for the next evolution, you will need to top it up]

"Therefore it's efficient to stack up on resources?"

[Yes. Though, after a specific material has been examined, the system need not undergo that again]

"Alright, I think I understand everything you are saying, and how this evolution works. Why don't we try it out?" Victor said, anticipation clear in his tone.

Victor had wanted to try out this extraction of evolution material, but as he looked around and could only observe zombies, it didn't really sit well with his soul. He had heard in movies and shows, people becoming undead and losing any human feelings, but in turn gaining a sort of feeling towards undead creatures.

Another thing to note was, raised undead, or people that became became undead after they had already died were fuelled with rage and vengeance, it was basically the medium that tied them to the world of the living. Unlike them, those that were born undead, or those that were undead from the very start were a bit different from those that attained it. They still had their feelings and emotions, though, towards fellow undead, and needed no cause to bind them to the world of the living.

Victor's case was sort of a special one, as he neither needed a reason, nor was he born an undead. The had no feelings or emotions towards humans. To him looking at other creatures was like looking at insects, not all irritated him, but he didn't hate them either, just indifferent. Killing them also meant nothing as it would be like squashing an insect. He also didn't feel a particular way about his fellow undead, which sort of put him in a different category.n0𝓥𝐞𝗅𝑈𝗌𝒷.𝗰0𝗆

Even with this, zombies looked like humans, and he was a human, even the time he bit off a chunk of flesh from an adventurer, that was back when he couldn't control himself. The idea of eating humanoid creatures just didn't appeal to him at the moment, so he chose different.

Quite a number of times, the ones responsible for Victor's deaths weren't adventurers, instead, it was other monsters, and the ones that had the highest kill count on him were the wolves, the only beast type monsters in the first floor.

Thinking about it, Victor couldn't help but feel a bit of excitement. They had been the cause of his death so many times, it was time to return the favour!

Thinking about it again, Victor's excitement disappeared. They were all but monsters in this dungeon, tools for the dungeon. Just like him, they would just get respond if they died, he would not have truly ended them.

"So unfortunate, so lucky." Victor said, as he reduced his pace a bit.

After walking for a while, he got to the part of the floor where the wolves were prominent, basically their territory. As usual, it started with faint growls, them the growls got louder. When they finally came face to face with a wolf pack, the growls had become quite aggressive and threatening.

'I'm sure these growls are supposed to have at least a paralyzing effect in them. But we are undead anyway, it doesn't matter, since we aren't affected by it.' Victor thought as he continued walking forward, and towards the wolves, just like a normal zombie would.

The wolves who have been warning the wandering zombies to back off their territory lashed out with furious claw strikes, as they attempted to slice through the bunch of zombies, little did they know that this bunch was different.

Without hesitation, Victor wasted no step, as he bore his hand through the wolf that approached from the air, tearing through it's little defence and rendering it's attack useless. The wolf's back bone was cut in two, and as Victor withdrew his hand and tossed the body to the side, he put into his mouth the handful chunk of meat he tore from the wolf. As he did, he immediately received a notification.

Evolution Material:

Fiery Tailed Wolf – 100

Victor didn't pay much attention to the notification, instead he went after the rest of the wolf pack, completely dominating and killing them, easily. He didn't bother with using his controlled zombies, they would only die and would ultimately be a waste. Victor now looked at the notification.

Evolution Material:

Fiery Tailed Wolf – 100

"Just a handful produces a hundred evo material? And the beast which it's gotten from is also recorded in a different section. Not bad." Victor said, as he read it. Shortly after, a series of notifications followed.

[Fiery Tailed Wolf material acquired. Analyzing on the sample]

"Ok? It didn't say for how long though. It's ok."

Victor went ahead to swallow more of the wolves flesh, and when he was done, the points had risen to 1000.

"This should be enough, let's wait for the system to analyze it." Victor said, as he walked away from the corpse, feeling neither happiness, nor empathy for the actions he had just taken.

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Status

Level: 10(experience bar)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie)

Evolution Material: 1000

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 245/245

Mp: 100/100

[Stat]

Strength: 20

Agility: 25

Sense: 24.

Vitality: 20

Magic: 10

Intelligence: 2

remaining stat point: 30

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-2

"Not bad, but this experience bar though. System, is there a way to see my actual progress in more detail? This bar will become difficult to read when I reach higher levels."

[Do you wish to change it to a traditional style?]

'Traditional? Hope it's the normal number system.' "Yes."

[…]

The experience bar animatedly changed from just a bar, to numbers that showed the required experience for the next level up, and the current points accumulated.

"This is it. Perfect."

Status

Level: 10 (3450/8000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie)

Evolution Material: 1000

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 245/245

Mp: 100/100

[Stat]

Strength: 20

Agility: 25

Sense: 24

Vitality: 20

Magic: 10

Intelligence: 2

remaining stat point: 30

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-2

..n0𝓥𝐞𝗅𝑈𝗌𝒷.𝗰0𝗆

"Now, I can track my progress more accurately. 8,000 experience points to advance from level 10? Damn. Makes me wonder how much it will cost when I advance to higher levels."

Victor used that time to also confirm some things about the process of evolution. According to the system, Victor would have full control over the process in future processes, and he could only possess two forms at a time, which means, whenever he decides to get a new form, he would have to cast out one of the two forms he already has.

This part of the system that dealt with evolution opened up a whole new world for Victor to experiment. From what he knew so far, apart from the stats and skills a creature possesses, their biological and racial properties also play a role in how strong they are overall. For example, elves are more sensitive to mana than most races, which means it's far easier for them to become good magicians than say humans. Most scaled animals, especially those of higher levels have extremely though scales, which increases their defensive abilities. Creatures with stronger or more compact muscles would be stronger than other creatures in the same level as they are able to exercise their strength and speed better. In short, the physical physic and mentality of a creature also affects their stats, and though it is not represented, it is also an important aspect. (A/N: I'm having a bit of a problem explaining this part, so I will elaborate more about it in future. Hope you guys understand it to some point though.)

With this, Victor saw the need to gain more evolution material from different monsters. He also made up his mind on the two forms he would be having.

For the first form, which would be his base form, Victor wanted something that would keep him looking as human as possible, so he chose not to evolve his base form into anything that would make him not look like a normal human, or at least, close.

His second form would be the monstrousity he would create. The second form would basically be a lab rat, and his goal for it was is to make it as strong and powerful as possible.

"I still don't know the specifics of the evolution thing. There are so many ways it can occur, will it be a full transformation? Or will it be more of like removing the imperfections and adding the other parts from other races? Hmm, I wonder." Victor said, as he walked through the first floor.

[System analysis complete. Fiery tailed wolf has been analyzed]

"Finally. System, explain how to go about this part of… the system." 'Feels weird to say that.'

[A 3 dimensional image of what you will look like after the evolution will be displayed, along with different information for each]

"Hmm."

Just like that, the system brought to display two options.

-Fiery Zombie

-Fiery Zombie Wolf

Victor wasted no time and picked the first option, and as he did, the system interface before his eyes expanded several times, until it was as long as the distance between his head and his waist. Then, a 3 dimensional image appeared on the panel. Looking at the image was like looking at the real thing in real life, it was so realistic.

"Wow.. Even 4k TVs don't display pictures this good!" Victor said in amazement.

Using his mind, he turned the 3d model of the fiery zombie around to see all the angles after looking at its frontal section a bit. The structure looked just like a zombie, but its entire body was on fire, and he could also spot small cracks on its skin where the fire seemed to be emitting from. The fiery zombie's fingers also looked a bit sharper and pointed than his own fingers at the moment. "Sick! Let's see the other option." He said, as he left that section and entered the zombie wolf.

The fiery zombie wolf looked just like a normal fiery tailed wolf, except that it was a bit larger in size, though just marginal. It's tail was on fire , and it looked a dull with some spots on it's skin missing a few patches of hair.

"Hmm, not bad. Seems like the first option just added a few properties from the wolf onto the zombie, and the second one did the same, just reversed." As victor studied more both options, his mind was already set on the one he was going to pick, but still…

"Maybe I shouldn't evolve now? Yeah, I shouldn't. There's something else I have to test."

Through the system and with his own knowledge, Victor knew that the human body had very limited potential in growth, so being able to evolve could be considered one of the best gifts he had gained from the system. This meant that, depending on how he used this evolution tree, he will essentially transcend mortal bounds, at least over the peak of humanity.

His current form was derived from evolving his base zombie form, the one he had when he first got to this world, with a human. Victor couldn't help but wonder what would happen, if he was to gain more zombie material and evolve further as a zombie. Although Zombies didn't exist on earth, at least, not to his knowledge, there were a lot of theories and view of what a zombie was.

While many saw zombies as mindless dead bones covered with stacks of rotten flesh, others saw them as people that might have been infected by some virus or similar, and had been turned to mindless flesh eaters. Some imagined them as slow, while others as fast. There were many depictions of zombies that showed them to be almost superhuman, being able to use the body's muscles up to a 100%, and never tire as their stamina was almost limitless. All these were depictions thought out by different people from Victor's original world.

Since Victor himself had experienced being a bone structure covered with stacks of rotten flesh, and now was just like the zombies that were depicted as superhuman, though only in appearance, he began to think if it was actually possible to become superhuman. With a form that is able to unleash up to 100% of its body's capabilities and never tires out, that would be the perfect base/foundation for him to build upon.

The only problem now, was how to get to this level. "Since evolution is possible, I can only test out my theory. That means my next meal targets will be zombies huh?" Victor said, as he once again rubbed his beardless chin. He never got to grow more than just some hair under his chin, and now he couldn't exactly grow hair as a zombie. He will forever be beardless.

(Such a catastrophic realization for a man. Though, this author prefers a clean face.)

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The first floor was filled with zombies for the most part, and some wolves. Ultimately, it was home to low-level undead zombies. This also meant that it took less than a minute before Victor came across another zombie, that is excluding the ones that were following him.

"Before anything, this entire floor is filled with only low-level zombies, so there really is no need to keep these guys with me. Losing them is detrimental in the least." Victor said, as he glanced over at the zombies under his control.

The next minute, and the zombies that were with him looked to be missing significantly noticeable body parts. In fact, despite being undead, none of them were alive, and that was also an experiment Victor had been wanting to do, that he finally remembered to this time.

Despite the fact that he had used them basically as an evolution farm or something similar, he also tested his theories to clearly specify his limits.

According to what he was able to deduce, being an undead was truly incredible. On top the effects of one of his titles, True Undead, as an undead, unless he suffers a critical injury to the head, he would not die. The only thing was that the zombies were unable to regenerate their injuries, not to talk of lost limbs.

'But it shouldn't be so.'

"System, what is the difference between these low-level zombies and myself?" He asked, as he wanted to clarify and cement his understanding.

[These zombies, despite the fact that they are low level, their evolutionary rank, or level is also low. Just like yourself some time ago, they are all low rank zombies]

[As it is for all creatures, no matter how high one's level is, if their rank in evolution is low, they can never go past a certain threshold. This is also why a human of level 100 will never be able to beat a dragon of 20 levels lower than them]

[This is also where skills come into play]

"This world.. So complex. System, you will need to explain and elaborate more so that I understand everything well." Victor said, as he took a seat on the hard ground beside one of the dead zombies.

The system elaborated on what it had said and explained the whole concept of strength more to Victor. He did have a lot of questions, but thankfully the system answered all.

From this new information, he was able to build on what he already knew, further cementing his knowledge about this new world he was in.

Basically, evolution was a very important aspect that Victor would have to focus on more than he initially intended, and the race and lineage of a creature mattered the most when it came to strength. Simply put, when measuring the strength of monsters and all other creatures, human or not, without including skills, their bloodlines played the most important role. A monster alligator with some trace of dragon bloodline in level 50, would be able to best one from the same species as himself that is at level 60, without the use of skills, and even if skills were involved, it would have a higher chance of winning. Even though this alligator had only a weak bloodline, if the amount was sufficient, it was enough.

Of course, this didn't mean that these bloodlines would be flying around in all creatures and monsters. The bloodline had to be an active one to begin with. Lizards are normally descendants of dragons and those higher ranked reptiles. That doesn't mean they would all be ranked high in the evolution tree..

"Geez, these things are all so unnecessarily complex. Doesn't that mean these undead would have the bloodline of some vampire or something?" Victor asked jokingly.

[No. Even if they did, the system can only absorb the bloodline that is most abundant and store as evolution material to be used for evolution]

"Figures."

Beep Beep

[System analysis complete. Zombie has been analyzed]

[There has been an update in the system. Please, check it out]

"Hmm.."n0𝓥𝐞𝗅𝑈𝗌𝒷.𝗰0𝗆

Victor mentally opened the status window as he willed it open.

Status

Level: 10 (3450/8000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie)

Evolution Material: 1000

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 245/245

Mp: 100/100

[Stat]

Strength: 20

Agility: 25

Sense: 24

Vitality: 20

Magic: 10

Intelligence: 2

remaining stat point: 30

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-2

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 5000/7000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – High rank Zombie.

"Huh? Can be further evolved? And I was going to ask the system how much material I needed. Guess that has been taken care of now. High rank Zombie, huh? Not bad. It follows the natural process."

"System, the evolution process won't start automatically like last time, right?"

[Yes. After the first evolution, you now have semi-full control over the process] The system answered with its usual cool voice.

"Yeah, you've explained that already. Just making sure." Victor said, as he got back on his feet and walked away.

He ate more zombies, and when he checked next, he had accumulated 12,000 evolution material for the zombie. With that, he returned to the small opening he hid himself in the last time. He was eager to see what the evolution this time will would bring. "This is almost exciting." Victor said, as he accessed the system interface.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 12000/7000 (can be further evolved)

"System, begin the evolution." Victor said. After that, he heard the system prompt, and following it, he gradually lost consciousness.

Beep

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

…

After a while of what seemed like just a brief moment, Victor was greeted with the warm and calm system voice, as it read out the notifications that pooped out on the system interface before him.

[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into a High Rank Zombie]

[Gained new skill Rot Bite]

[Received 7 stat points]

[Strength 3, Agility 2, Sense 2]

[It will take 24hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

"Wow, the system's generous with its rewards. Wait, are these even system rewards? System…"

[New skills are gotten whenever there is a new evolution. This is the same with other rewards]

"Ah, I see. As for 24 hours, that's totally doable."

Victor came out of the crack where he hid himself during the evolution, and the first thing he did after that was check his body to see what was different. There was no stream in the cave nor a mirror where he could see his reflection, so all he could do was rely on his eyes.

Victor's Zombie body had undergone some minor changes. He now looked even more human than before, and had increased in height a bit. Apart from his human appearance and top physical appearance, he had become as pale as a ghost. The colour had been completely drained, that Victor wondered if he actually had a tint of blue in his skin. Apart from that, he felt significantly stronger.

"Is this the perk of evolving?"

Strength – 20 23

Agility -25 27

Sense – 24 26

Status

Level: 10 (3450/8000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie High-rank)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 245/245

Mp: 100/100

[Stat]

Strength: 23

Agility: 27

Sense: 26

Vitality: 20

Magic: 10

Intelligence: 2

remaining stat point: 37

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-1.

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-2

"This is good." Victor said. "But system, I know I became stronger and all, but was it necessary to make me look like someone who frequents the gym? Look at these muscles! I look like Captain America became a zombie." Victor said, after examining himself.

[This can be fixed during the next evolution. Though this model and type of body was based on what the general human male population likes, it seems you don't like it]

"What? I prefer to look like Naruto than Goku. In facet, in my next evolution, build me like the great Shadow Monarch. Let me possess immerse power but still look like a twig from afar… Is that possible?"

[Understood. I do not know this Shadow Monarch, but I assume you want to look like Saitama, but taller]

"…" "Guess that also works. Yesss, let me gain the physic and be able to end every enemy in one strike!"

[You will have to be at a pseudo-god level to be able to imitate that kind of power. You are far from that now]

"System."

[Yes]

"It was only a joke, a joke."

[…]

"Well, I will have to bear with this form for now. Let me see."

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 5000/30000 (can be further evolved)

"Wow. This is quite unexpected. I never knew zombies had so many types… Well, not that I would know, of course."

After seeing this, a new goal surfaced in Victor's mind. The next thing he was going to do was evolve further. He planned to raise his zombie form to the highest he could to solidify the base he would build upon.

Fortunately for Victor, getting zombie material was not at all difficult. Instead, it was extremely easy. In a dungeon where the monsters continuously respawned, it was like a gold mine where the rocks kept turning into gold, the more one extracted.

In the brief span of a day, Victor had already gathered 35000 evolution material, and so he returned to the crack. He took a peek at the system panel to see what the next evolution was, as he hadn't checked it previously.

-Zombie – 5000/30000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Warrior.

"Zombies in this world are really powerful. They even have an hierarchy. Maybe I should become a necromancer and raise an unparalleled undead army. Shouldn't I be able to evolve my subordinate?? Heheh." Victor said jokingly.

[Yes, it is possible to evolve your subordinates] The system gave a cool answer, as always.

"…" Hearing the system's answer, Victor became a mute for a brief second as countless thoughts ran through his head.

If what the system said was right, doesn't that mean he would be able to actually raise such an army of powerful beings? This was very interesting, no, too interesting.

"Guess there's something else to look forward to."

"Alright system, we are moving fast. Begin the next evolution." Victor said with a mild grin on his face.

Beep

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

Just like the previous times, Victor lost consciousness as the process began. After it must have been a while, he woke up as he regained his consciousness, and without needing the system to tell him, he instantly knew the evolution process was over.

[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into a Zombie Warrior]

[Gained new skill Undead Aura]

[Skill Rot Bite has advanced to level 3]

[Received 10 stat points]

[Strength 6, Agility 5, Sense 3]

[Max HP has increased by 200]

[Max MP has increased by 100]

[It will take 48hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

"Even better than I expected. Let's check it out." Victor said, as he received the notifications.

Hp: 245/245 445/445

Mp: 100/100 200/200

Strength: 23 29

Agility: 27 32

Sense: 26 29

remaining stat point: 37 47

Rot Bite lvl-1 Rot Bite lvl-3

New Skill Undead Aura lvl-1

[Undead Aura]

Inflicts fear/terror/hallucination on targets that are affected. Duration varies depending on the target.

Level: 1

Mana cost: none

Looking at the new status screen, Victor couldn't help but grin a little. He was making good progress, and it seemed he would once again have to delay his descent to the higher floors. Seeing as he had just evolved into a Zombie Warrior, Victor couldn't help but think that there would be a new evolution stage, so he checked, just to quell his curiosity.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 5000/100000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Commander.

"Fuck! Just how many zeros are there?! I don't think my salary till I died had this much zeros! Zombie commander, nothing else than to reach that evolution ASAP. Let's get to work."

After thinking for a while, Victor seemed to be trying to remember something as he stared straight at nothing, rubbing his smooth chin. After a while had passed, he finally remembered what it was that had been running through his head.

The adventurers from before, if he remembered right, said that from the 1 – 5 floor, the prominent monsters were zombies and undead, and that they were all between level 1 and 7. n0𝓋ℯ𝓵𝑢𝓈𝔅.𝑪0𝑀

"Then why have I been suffering myself all this time?! I can evolve while also descending the dungeon! Hai.." Victor exclaimed, as he ridiculed himself for forgetting something so important. "It must be this intelligence stat that is so low. If not, how can I forget something so important? System, tell me how the 'intelligence' stat affects me again."

[It affects the player's ability to understand and decipher complex situations and spells]

[Undead like yourself have a low intelligence, so the figure is normally around 1 or 2. The reason why you can still think up to this extent is because of your body's soul]

[Continuing to have this stat at such a low value can cause you to lose your natural intelligence, therefore, becoming an actual zombie]

"…" "System, is your ultimate mission to make me a true dungeon monster?"

[No. The system is here to assist you…]

"Then why have you held back on such an important information all this time?!! Haiyaa.."

Because of this eye-opening realization, Victor wasted no time, and immediately pumped 20 points into intelligence, without even thinking about it.

Intelligence: 2 22

"Ahh, much better. System, don't hold such important information ever again, please."

[…]

With that, Victor headed for the next floor, floor 2. And so, his descent of the dungeon began.

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"I should first of all test my skills to see their effects. I've never been to the second floor before, so this should be my actual first dungeon exploration. The first one wasn't exactly enjoyable, and I was not in control for the most part."

Victor went over his status screen one more time, and he then noticed that he hadn't checked the effect of the skill Rot Bite yet, so he did and also checked the one he got last, just to be sure.

[Rot Bite]

Any target bitten will be inflicted with rot and will slowly decay and rot away. The infected area cannot be treated with low grade healing potion or magic.

Duration: 10s

Level: 3

Mana cost: none

[Undead Aura]

Inflicts fear/terror/hallucination on targets that are affected. Duration varies depending on target.

Level: 1.

Mana cost: none

"The first one is understandable, but this second one is a bit vague. This kind of skill is normally active though, does that mean it needs a trigger? If so, what is the trigger?… System?" Victor queried.

[Yes. This skill is the type that requires a trigger to be activated. The skill be take effect when any creature before you develops any feeling of fear before you]

"Wow, is that so." Victor said, seeing how much power this skill had. "This is definitely one that I have to level up."

Victor also made a deduction going by what the system said. The target had to be in his presence, which meant someone watching him over a screen would not be affected. And after a bit more questioning, he found out that due to the skill's current level, the fear the opposite party feels towards him would have to be more than just a little.

"So tempting. I almost want to use my skill points to level this up, but no, I have to restrain myself and work towards building the perfect base for now. Besides, I don't need it for now." Victor said as he closed the system interface.

He had just entered the second floor, and hadn't walked much yet, he could even still see the entrance. The way it was, after he got to the passage that lead to the second floor, the path gradually descended downwards for a while, until he emerged in another open area.

He began exploring, and only after some minutes did he encounter his first monster, a zombie, nothing special. The only difference noticeable was when the system identified the monster.

-Zombie Lvl2

"Oho, a level two." The rest he had been killing on the first floor were all level one. He wondered how many experience points he would get from killing it. So, like what any other reasonable person would do, he attacked it. The poor zombie didn't even get a chance to respond, before its head was smashed off its body. Apart from the exp, Victor didn't really like moving food.

6exp

Victor received a pop-up notification after the zombie fell to the floor.

After taking a bite however, he found that he received the same amount of evolution material, 100. He quickly finished get every bit of flesh he could from the dead zombie, leaving only some areas untouched. The insides of the zombie were rotten for the most part, so Victor didn't like going too deep and reaching those parts.

To his current pallets, raw or rotten meat wasn't all that bad. Rotten or bad meat only tasted like something similar to oats and the raw one he ate from the wolves wasn't bad either. Not tasty, but not irritable, just blend for the most part.

Since humans were so useless according to the system, Victor had no reason to eat any, which was also better for him. If he were to start eating humans, ahh, it just would feel a bit off. Though, he would have still done it.

Unlike the first floor where Victor came from, this current floor didn't seem to have many monsters moving around, and since Victor didn't exactly have a map, he could only walk around without knowing where to head to.

The dungeon layout wasn't at all like a labyrinth, or a normal cave system with hollow passage ways everywhere. Of course, there were some parts that were just tunnels and a direct route from point A to B, but for the most part it was like an ecosystem with different layouts and creative structures. Victor himself could tell that the game developers weren't lazy and tight on the budget. That is of course, if he was back on earth and playing video games.

At the moment however, Victor had entered one of those passage ways, and this one he entered was long. After walking for a while, his zombie eyes noticed something in the distance hanging from the ceiling, dungeon bats. He wasn't particularly afraid, after all he was level 10. The only thing that worried him was the fact that bats never attacked in small numbers, and the way this dungeon was designed, monsters attack monsters.

Monsters attacking monsters in a dungeon would be normal, except the sole fact that they both are mobs in the same dungeon, what was the need to attack each other?! "Alas, the creator is crazy." Victor said.

He had been moving forward without fear, until he asked the system to identify the monsters, and what he saw brought him to a complete stop.

-Dungeon Bat lvl4, -Dungeon Bat lvl4, -Dungeon Bat lvl4

-Dungeon Bat lvl4, -Dungeon Bat lvl5, -Dungeon Bat lvl4

-Dungeon Bat lvl4, -Dungeon Bat lvl5

-Dungeon Bat lvl5, -Dungeon Bat lvl5

-Dungeon Bat lvl4

-Dungeon Bat lvl4…

And it went on for longer than initially estimated by Victor also. This was extremely dangerous!

Victor knew dying didn't mean the end for him, and he also didn't lose experience as a penalty for dying like one would in games, so in actuality, there wasn't much to fear. But, "rushing straight into a death trap. Isn't that just a crazy and unreasonable thing to do?" He said to himself.

Doing so was a good plan, but that was only if he had no other option, or in special situations, but now wasn't the time for that… or was it?

"If only I had a ranged attack, or some type of AOE." Victor thought to himself, and that was when he realized. This situation, was a special situation where he had to sacrifice himself for some important exp. "Let's do this. I'm kinda regretting not taking those adventurers' weapons." Victor said as he stretched his arms out a bit. His fingers were quite sharp and sturdy, so they made for good weapons.

Victor hesitated not and lounged straight at the first row of bats hanging from the ceiling. With his superior speed, he was able to fall about five bats to the ground with his first strike, and with his second he did same or close. The remaining bats scattered around, and started attacking Victor, to which he responded with his own series of attacks. He could follow their movements from one to another perfectly, as to him it was almost as if they were just flying like butterflies around him, albeit flower.

What he saw next surprised him a bit, in as much as it also brought a sinister grin to his face.

[A large portion of dungeon bats have been affected by the skill Undead Aura]

[A large portion of the targets have died due to the skill effects.]

[The rest are unable to move and have fallen]

Seeing this, Victor also saw himself the noticeable cut in the number of bats attacking him, but before he could do his job and kill the remaining, a string of notifications that brought joy to his face started coming in.

10, 10, 10, 10

10, 8, 10

8, 10

10…

The notifications kept flooding in. By the time he was done with the remaining bats, he had gotten over a thousand exp in total. He checked his status to see how much he got, and although compared to what he needed for his next level, it was quite sufficient.

..n0𝑣𝞮𝓵𝗎𝓢𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

Level: 10 (3450/8000) (4756/8000)

"Not bad. Maybe I should eat them, but zombie with wings wouldn't be bad. Hmm." Victor wasted no time and started stuffing this face with bat meat. The dungeon bats weren't the size of normal bats, as they were a bit larger in size, but nothing too big.

After getting enough evolution material, Victor looked at the remaining bats that littered the floor. He didn't experience much of their attacks, so he wasn't sure of their abilities and strength, but at least their level was around 4 and 5, higher than the zombies he had encountered so far.

Using his corpse manipulation skill, he raised five dead dungeon bats and added them to his ranks. "No matter how I look at this, it's pure necromancy." Victor said as he watched the dead monsters twitch before they began flying like normal.

The necromancer class was Victor's best whenever he played and RPG game back when he was 'alive' on earth. It was also his most proficient class, so he was very knowledgeable about it. If he wasn't mistaken, the newly raised bats would have some necrotic skills added to their pre-existing skills. Skills like rot bite might be added, and they would enjoy all the benefits of being undead, and also suffer all the weaknesses.

(A/N: Though I haven't spoken about this, I wanted to take some space to shed some light on this, and I will also be adding it as an ability, something that will be introduced in this chapter, to better clarify things.)

All undead creatures have a set of weakness and benefits their undead body grants them, this, Victor was clear of. Up until now however, he hadn't been able to test these knowledge he had from his previous life. "System, I've been wondering. What are the benefits I enjoy as an undead. You know, things that are specific to my race and stuff." Victor asked.

[What you are talking about is the Innate Ability one possesses relative to their race and bloodline]

"Yes."

[It is displayed in the Innate ability section of your status screen that has just been added. Please, check it out]

"…" Victor was speechless. He knew quite well that his system didn't have a mind of its own and was best an advanced AI, so shouting was useless. He then mentally willed open the status screen from his thoughts.

Status.

Level: 10 (4756/8000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Warrior)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 445/445

Mp: 200/200

[Stat]

Strength: 29

Agility: 32

Sense: 29

Vitality: 20

Magic: 10

Intelligence: 22n0𝚟𝑒𝐋𝔲𝚜𝔟.𝗰0𝓂

remaining stat point: 27

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-3, Undead Aura lvl-1

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-2

[Undead Body]

As an undead, you do not require sleep or rest, and you do not require any sustenance nor are you held back by the need of bodily functions. Your stamina is limitless, and you do not accumulate fatigue. Any injury aside from a critical or fatal head injury will not kill you, and will hinder your mobility or bodily functions, but damage will still be taken. You are able to survive in extreme conditions of cold and heat, and radiation, up to a certain limit.

-Necrotic/Negative energy is converted to healing/mana supplement

-Healing/Holy magic is converted to damage

-Complete Immunity to sickness and disease

-Complete immunity to psychic attacks

-Complete immunity to poison attacks

-Complete immunity to curses

-(50%) damage from fire type attacks

-Double damage received from Holy/Light magic attacks

"Damn, just like I expected." Victor said after going over the details of his innate ability.

After looking at these, Victor wasn't all too grim, as he knew something. The higher the rank of the undead, the more amazing effects they had, and while some weaknesses increased, many reduced or completely vanished. The thing now was that he didn't know the rules of this world he was in now. As to which effects would drop or strengthen, he didn't know, but again, there was hope.

"This fire damage part, if I were to for example evolve the fiery tailed wolf and absorb its effects, won't that nullify this weakness? The model I saw had fire burning all over its body too. System, am I right?"

[Yes. Through evolution, weakness such as the weakness to holy/light magic can be nullified, same with the fire weakness]

[Also keep in mind that new weakness will be acquired. So, it is advisable to first raise the rank of a specific bloodline by evolving it independently before supplementing it]

The last thing the system said picked Victors interest, so he made a mental note. "This means I can't just recklessly evolve into new forms, I have to be careful. I know of a few annoying weaknesses that I wouldn't want to ever have." Victor said.

[With the use of the system, the risk of gaining weaknesses from other monsters will be greatly reduced. All you have to do is first raise the rank of a specific bloodline by evolving it independently before supplementing it]

"You mean like I'm doing with my zombie form right now?"

[Yes]

[Please note, not all bloodlines can be upgraded]

"Figures. Something like this is usually rare, so I wasn't expecting it to be for all creatures o begin with."

It was also at this moment that Victor realized that the way his evolution system worked was just a super chimera building sim. From what he knew of the system, different abilities and aspects of other monsters would be taken from other monsters and added to his pre-existing form to create a more powerful and perfect being. This was also why he was currently building the perfect base.

"I feel more and more like a science experiment as time goes by. Heh."

After feasting on the bats, the number of evolution materials he had was now…

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 6000/100000 (can be further evolved)

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

"Seems this one can't be evolved further."

[System analysis complete. Dungeon Bat has been analyzed]

"Hmm. It kind of sucks that I don't have the map of this floor and have to ke…"

Before Victor could complete his sentence, he remembered something crucial. He rushed and called up his system window, and as soon as he assessed the inventory, the realized just how detrimental having an intelligence of two was. Inside his inventory sat the map device that he had taken from the the adventurers he killed.

"Fuck this! Thank god I've increased my intelligence, but still the damage had been done. This was here the whole time, and I didn't even know. I didn't remember."

A smile immediately appeared on Victors face as he switched the device on. The hologram that appeared clearly showed the entire floor two map layout, and also, as clear indication of where the door to the next floor was.

"Now, all I have to do is get some evolution materials from this floor, then I can advance smoothly."

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Victor ran amok through the second floor, killing any zombie he found, and avoiding the bats if he could. Apart from some exp they brought him nothing, for he already had enough evolution material from them. It would have been a different story if he possessed some type of AOE skill, but since he didn't, it was more time efficient to avoid them.

The concept of taking whatever was available no matter how small didn't apply here because of Victor's situation. Going by what the adventurers said, there was a team been put together to come and challenge this particular dungeon and clear it, and since the higher floors had monsters of level 70 and above, it only meant the people coming would be same or above. Wasting time in the lower floors in the name of getting some extra experience points was just the worst idea.

In what Victor could calculate as a day and probably a half, he was finally able to gather the required number of evolution material to evolve into the next stage, and even went past the limit, just to be at an advantage. He had made full use of a zombies ability remain awake and not need sleep or rest.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 250000/100000 (can be further evolved)

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Zombie – 250000/100000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Commander.

With this, Victor was ready for the next evolution. He had found a spot where he would be able to hide himself during the process, but unlike the previous one in the first floor, this one had a wide entrance. But this didn't bother him. The zombies in this dungeon had a set path they always follow, just like in games, and the bats basically remained hanging on the dungeon ceiling until they spotted a target. This place he was in wasn't close to any bat spot, and if any zombie was to walk by he wouldn't be attacked, nor even paid the slightest attention.

After entering the small room-like spot, he sat down and ordered the system to begin the evolution process.

Beep

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into a Zombie Commander]

[Gained new skill Negative Burst]

[Gained new skill Melee Combat]

[Gained new skill Spearmanship]

[Skill Rot Bite has advanced to level 7]

[Skill Corpse Manipulation has advanced to level 5]

[Skill Undead Aura has advanced to level 5]

[Received 20 stat points]

[Strength 10, Agility 10, Sense 7, Intelligence 10]

[Max HP has increased by 200]

[Max MP has increased by 100]

[You have levelled up five times in a row due to the effects of evolving]

[It will take 48hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

Looking at the barrage of notifications, Victor was speechless. He had to go back and check some of them to read them well. Who knew evolving could bring so much benefits.

"This is absolutely insane! No fucking shit!" Victor exclaimed, as he went over the notifications. The benefits this time were just that good.

He quickly rushed and called up his status screen to see the new look.

Status

Level: 15 (0/21,540)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Commander)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 445/445 905/905

Mp: 200/200 560/560

[Stat]

Strength: 29 52

Agility: 32 41

Sense: 29 31

Vitality: 20 21

Magic: 10 11

Intelligence: 22 33

remaining stat point: 27 67

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-5, Melee Combat lvl-2, Spearmanship lvl-2

Active: Corpse Manipulation lvl-5, Negative Burst lvl-1

(Each level up increases MAX HP and MP by 50, distributes 5 total stat points randomly to Victor's stats, and awards 3-5 free stat points, and sometimes grants skills)

Seeing the new skills he had gained, Victor's eyes were drawn immediately to the skill 'Negative Burst' which he just got. Going by the name, Victor could tell the skill was a AOE skill, or something along that line. "One thing's for sure though, it attacks multiple enemies at the same time." He said. Instead of simply guessing, Victor collapsed each skill to get a description of what each could do.

[Corpse Manipulation]

You are able to control 20 corpses of lower levels than yourself.

Level: 5

Mana cost: 1

No. Of Corpses: 5/20

[Rot Bite]

Any target bitten will be inflicted with rot and will rapidly decay and rot away. The infected area can only be treated with high level holy/healing magic.

Duration: 30s

Level: MAX

Mana cost: none

[Undead Aura]

Inflicts fear/terror/hallucination on targets that are affected. Duration varies depending on target. This status effect cannot be cleared with external skills or magic.

Level: 5

Mana cost: none

n0𝗏𝓮𝒍𝓤𝓢𝒷.𝑪0𝑀

[Negative Burst]

Send out a wave of negative energy that deals magical damage to surrounding targets. The closer the target to you, the more damage is dealt.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 5

Radius: 3m

As for Melee Combat and Spearmanship, Victor didn't need to look at them, as they were pretty basic and self explanatory, just from their names.

After Victor came out from the spot he had harboured for his evolution, he noticed a difference in his balance. He almost immediately knew he had grown taller, but not too much this time. He now stood at 6'2ft and for Victor, this was quite the achievement. Too bad he couldn't play basketball now and completely woo all the beautiful girls with his skills.

"If my father saw me now, he would shed tears. Haha.." Victor said, as he remembered his family. If he remembered correctly, his family had never had tall statures, not from his mother's side, not his fathers. They were all average height at best. "Ahh, with this alone, I can say, I am destined for greatness…"

'Kind of embarrassing to say knowing the system is listening.'

"It was just a joke, a joke." He clarified with himself, just to defend himself to himself, about his own shyness. 'Miserable.'

Before memories about his family could surface in his mind and cause him to reminisce, the thoughts were knocked off even before they appeared. Victor had long ago made up his mind. He was already in this world, and there was no going back, crying about the past and things he left in his former world was completely useless and stupid to do. He would move forward in this life, and if he ever feels like it, he could always find a way to go back to his previous world. Though, he doubt he would, since by then everyone he knew would be dead anyway, and he might not have these powers.

"Why would I ever forsake such a magical world for my old one? Not even my father would."

"…"

"That's the most stupidest thing to think about. Now to more important things, can't be living in the past." Victor said, as he pulled up his status window, and went straight to evolution. He had a feeling that his zombie form could still undergo further evolution, and like he thought, he also wasn't disappointed.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 150000/500000 (can be further evolved)

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Zombie – 150000/500000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Lord.

-Zombie – 150000/500000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Lord.

Seeing these words spelled out before his eyes, and on the system, Victor found a newly awakened motivation to kill every undead he sees and feast on their flesh. Victor also predicted that the zombie lord was going to be the final evolution for his zombie form, since he couldn't imagine anything higher than that in the ranks of the zombies.

"This is making my blood boil!" Victor said as he carved a wide grin on his face, but then his eyes sunk in and his face became even more pale than it already was. "…"

"I don't have blood now, do I?" Victor said, allowing the thought to distract him a bit from the goal he had just put before himself.

The thought of whether or not zombies had blood or breathed had never occurred to him, but since he didn't require normal bodily functions, he quickly assumed he didn't need to breath. As an experiment, he quickly pinched his nose to restrict air flow, but nothing. Then he placed his hand on his chest, there was no beating heart.

Seeing this, Victor concluded. He was just a walking corpse. He knew this already, but it hadn't occurred to him, especially now that he looked more human. "Well, it's good. This only means I have a lot o… Wait." Something else he had just realised. If blood didn't flow in his body and he basically has no sensation in his body, doesn't that mean he was going to die a virgin, again, in this magical world?!

'Ah, why do I suddenly feel like visiting earth again in my old body?' Victor sobbed in his mind. On earth, he had made due with his best friend and best technique, the almighty 'Right-Hand Five Fingers Technique.' A sacred art that has been passed down from generation to generation. On earth, Victor was one of the very few humans who was able to grasp this technique without being taught! After receiving enlightenment! But now, he couldn't even use his best technique… Tut, life was unfair.

'Why don't I focus on getting stronger for now. I'm sure there's a solution to this, there should be.'

"I can't live two lives and still not taste the forbidden fruit, that is not how the heavens intend for it to be, no." Victor said, with a hint of seriousness and sadness mixed together.

After that episode of realisation ended, Victor got his head back into the game and the more important things before him. He had already memorised the layout of the second floor enough to know where the door to the third floor was without using the map. It seemed the increase in intelligence wasn't at all a waste..

Victor spent two days in the third floor gathering evolution materials, and apart from the zombies, the other monsters in the third floor were Fiery tailed wolves and dungeon bats, both of which he had already encountered before. There was no need for their evolution material, since he already had them, so he took what he needed and advanced to the fourth floor.

-Zombie – 250000/500000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Lord.

On the fourth floor, the number of zombies was greatly reduced, and the more prominent monsters were skeletons and skeleton hounds. Victor saw no need to acquire a skeleton's evolution material, he wasn't trying to become a Lich or something. He was quite ok with his current defect as it was. Quickly, he advanced to the fifth floor. If this floor still didn't have enough zombies, it would mean he had to descend to the lower floors to complete his goals.

Luckily for Victor, the fifth floor was filled with only zombies, and of different types too. There were the normal zombies he knew, the humanoid ones, albeit of higher level (5), then there were zombie hounds and bats. It was like the one who created the dungeon was just lazy and so he took all the previous monsters and just turned them into zombies. This was good news for Victor, though. It took him just two days of nonstop eating, and at the end of the second day Victor had managed to emmance the required amount of evolution materials needed for his next evolution.

-Zombie – 500050/500000 (can be further evolved)

Next evolution – Zombie Lord.

"Finally. It's about time." Victor said, as he sat down in a predetermined location he had found on the fifth floor.

"System, begin evolution."

Beep Beep

[Starting evolution process]

[You will lose consciousness during the evolution process. Make sure you are in a favourable location]

[You will now lose consciousness as evolution begins]

With these familiar notifications, Victor gradually faded away as he lost consciousness, and as he did, the anticipation in his dead heart slowed, until it stopped.

[Evolution complete]

[You have evolved into a Zombie Lord]

[Gained new skill Domain of the undead]

[Gained new skill Touch of Death]

[Skill Corpse Manipulation has evolved into a new skill Legion of the Dead]

[Skill Undead Aura has advanced to level 8]

[Gained new skill Negative Burst advanced to level 8]

[Gained new skill Melee Combat advanced to level 5]n0𝑽𝖊𝑙𝔲𝒮𝕓.𝐂0𝗆

[Gained new skill Spearmanship has advanced to level 5]

[Some of your weaknesses have been lifted]

[Some of your weaknesses have been reduced]

[Received 50 stat points]

[Strength 30, Agility 20, Sense 20, Intelligence 25, Vitality 20]

[Max HP has increased by 500]

[Max MP has increased by 500]

[You have levelled up five times in a row due to the effects of evolving]

[It will take 48hours to completely adjust to new form. Till then, evolution is impossible, unless under favourable for dangerous conditions]

"Wow. Evolving myself is really the best way to grow stronger fastest. Look at all these effects. Will I be able to beat those high level adventurers with these skills? Probably not, right?" Victor said as he read through the entire list of notification. The previous evolutions before this one had prepared him for this one. He was amazed by the results, but not so much that he would become speechless like last time.

He brought up his status window to see just how much it had changed, and to see the new skills he had obtained, and how the old ones had improved. "Status."

Status

Level: 20 (0/91,360)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 905/905 1665/1665

Mp: 560/560 1330/1330

[Stat]

Strength: 52 85

Agility: 41 70

Sense: 31 54

Vitality: 21 48

Magic: 11 15

Intelligence: 33 53

remaining stat point: 67 117

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-1, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max

"These skills though. I swear, if this thing turns me into a Lich, I'm gonna go on a killing spree." Victor said expressionless, as he stared at the system interface.

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"Let's go through them shall we?"

[Undead Aura]

Inflicts fear/terror/hallucination on targets that are affected. Duration varies depending on target. This status effect cannot be cleared with external skills or magic.

Level: MAX

Mana cost: none

[Negative Burst]

Send out a wave of negative energy that deals magical damage to surrounding targets. The closer the target to you, the more damage is dealt.

Level: MAX

Mana cost: 30

Radius: 15m

[Domain of the Undead]

Declare a region of space around you as your domain. All undead allies within your domain receive an increase of 20% to attack and defense. All opponents within the domain receive a -20% to attack and defense.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 5/s

[Touch of Death]

Instantly cause critical damage to any target touched with your hands.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 10

[Legion of the Dead]

Call forth an army of undead to do your bidding.

Level: 1

Mana cost: none

Legion: 0/5

[Undead Body]

As an undead, you do not require sleep or rest, and you do not require any sustenance nor are you held back by the need of bodily functions. Your stamina is limitless, and you do not accumulate fatigue. Any injury aside from a critical or fatal head injury will not kill you, and will not hinder your mobility or bodily functions, but damage will still be taken. You are able to survive in extreme conditions of cold and heat, and radiation, up to a certain limit. You will naturally heal your injuries after a period of time, but cannot regain lost body parts. Foreign Body parts can be attached.

-Necrotic/Negative energy is converted to healing/mana supplement

-Healing/Holy magic is converted to damage (Penalty lessened)

-Complete Immunity to sickness and disease

-Complete immunity to psychic attacks

-Complete immunity to poison attacks

-Complete immunity to curses

-(20%) damage from fire type attacks

-(50%) damage received from Holy/Light magic attacks

-Can enter holy grounds.

"This changes are subtle but very important. Overall, I've gotten stronger, and my stats too. I don't think those numbers match a level 20, right? It doesn't matter for now." Victor said, as he resumed his journey towards the more advanced floors of the dungeon.

He had the evolution material of the fiery tailed wolf and the dungeon bat, but he had changed his plans a bit since then. These were low level creatures, so he wanted to instead climb descend the dungeon, and when he got to the floors above 70 where the monsters are stronger, he would use theirs to evolve. For the mean time, if he saw any monster with a unique ability or something so eye catching, he would consider it, and maybe use it for his second form, which he was also yet to start developing.

Before that, there was something Victor needed to clarify.

"System, say I was to acquire a vampire bloodline and evolve it to the limit, and then combine it with my zombie form, what would happen, what will I become then? A vampire, a zombie, or a zombie-vampire or vampire-zombie?" Victor asked, as he made his way to the sixth floor.

[You will ultimately become a hybrid, like with any other evolution. If you are requesting which one will precede in terms of your form and appearance, then it will be whichever you choose. But most of the traits of being a zombie will be retained, and your innate ability will still be in effect]

"So, if I were to say, change my form into that of a human, the effects of [Undead Body] would not disappear, correct?"

[Yes. Do note that if you are to acquire the bloodline of a different race that has an effect due to their innate ability that counters the one you already possess, the more advantageous one will be picked over the other, or a new trait will be created from the two, and they in turn will be removed]

"Oho? That's a really nice effect, certainly." Victor said.

If there was a horny race in the majority of the fantasy novels and anime Victor knew, it was the vampire race. He could only pray they weren't just blood thirsty creatures in this world he was in now, as that would be very sad.

"System, apart from vampires, what other race can I fuse with to get 'that' desired effect?" Victor asked, putting emphasis on 'that.'

[The demonic race is a good choice. Their characteristic are close to the undead, and would be able to fuse wholly with your current form]

"Ahh, I see. I never like body building and giant body parts, so I was having second thoughts about what to do with my second form, but I'll just use that form as I intended still. As experiment."

By now, Victor had reached the path that lead to the sixth floor, and stepped in without any caution whatsoever. When you are this powerful, what is the need to be so cautious, right?

"I should distribute these stat points soon. You'll never the strong monster that can be hiding in these lower floors. One can never be too careful." Victor said, as he descended the path.

It wasn't that he wasn't being careful, but as his sense stat increased, he could pick up the smallest signals with his five sense, and from a considerably long distance no less. As far as security was concerned, the entire area close to him was already being monitored by him even without trying.

As Victor could remember, from floor 6 to 14, the monsters that were prominent were beast type monsters, and their levels were also not that high. Just as he stepped foot in the sixth floor, his senses picked up something closing in at him, though, was it because of his stats? The monster on all fours seemed to be running a bit slow.

'This speed. It's probably me who is fast. Great, this will also do for a good test.'

As the monster leaped into the air and was about to pounce on Victor, he inserted his index right finger into his mouth and covered it with spit, then dug his sharp claw like fingers into the beasts neck, while skillfully avoiding it's attack by side stepping.

As the beast fell to the ground, it tried to stand immediately, but fell back down in pain as it winced sorrowfully before giving up. No, it didn't give up; its life was taken from it without any chance for it to fight back, as per jungle rules. The weak only live to die to the strong.

Victor inspected the corpse for some seconds, as he noticed some fur changing texture. As he grabbed the beast by the hind leg and raised it up, the underbelly skin gave up under pressure, and the insides of the beast poured out, most of which had turn to a pulp of mess.

"This rot is just too destructive, and it's not even a type of poison or something that is secreted, my entire saliva carries this power of rot." Victor said, as he felt a little stab in his dead heart.

'I know I'm just imagining it, but it hurts… I won't even be allowed my first kiss. I'll literally kill the first girl I kiss.' Victor reminisced, as he looked back on the days he practiced the sacred art of kissing with his mirror, did he waste his time for nothing?

'It better not be a shitty bored goddess who brought me to this world like this. If not, they are dead!'

Just as Victor was still consoling himself, he sensed a horde of monsters approaching his location, and fast too. It was as if they were running with everything they had, like they were being chased by something.

Victor didn't move an inch and waited for the monsters to come to him. There was actually no point running, since they were coming from both sides, the only two ways that lead into the other parts of the floor. 'I wonder what they are running from?' Victor thought.

The first set of monsters came into sight, as they dashed forwards towards him. They appeared to be some type of wolves or something along the lines of that, but their size was bigger than that of a normal wolf. Victor couldn't help but feel something was off, as it felt like he was actually being targeted and the monsters were running towards him, but why? 'Are they angry I killed one of them? No, that shouldn't be.' For the initial moment though, Victor wanted to watch and see what would happen.

Sure enough, as the beasts closed in, they tried to pounce on him and bear their razor sharp teeth into his skin. This time however, instead of dodging, Victor stood firm and allowed them bite. He hadn't had an opportunity to test his defences, he already couldn't feel any pain, so he just wanted to confirm how tough he was.

As the beasts bit and bit, all Victor felt was fur rubbing against his body, and the tickling sensation of the many teeth against his skin. As a zombie with no blood or fluid, Victor's entire body was as hard as it gets. After he became a zombie lord, he was sure his skin was at least as tough as steel. This was another reason he wanted to change this body.

What is romance if your companion is a stuffed steel bars? Are you going to let the girl hump the smooth hard bars?! Or are you going to provide a slippery den for the counterpart? Alas, this zombie body was only good for battle and survival.n0𝗏𝓮𝒍𝓤𝓢𝒷.𝑪0𝑀

"Negative burst." Victor said with a calm and plain voice. Completely out of focus with the happenings around him.

As a wave of purplish black energy washed across in a 360 degree manner, colliding with the ceiling and walls of the cave, and extending as far down the cave paths the beasts came from, all the beasts around Victor dropped death in an instant, without the slightest resistance.

"Interesting.. Is this really the anomaly from last time? Or have the humans sent their champion? It doesn't matter, either one, None is as powerful as me. Weaklings. Hahaha…"

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"All I did was take a nap for some days, and such a character has appeared in my dungeon. I just need a little more, and those foolish humans will suffer, surely." A mysterious voice said.

"With the group at the higher floor and this arrogant one that is challenging my dungeon alone, no matter, they will all perish. Before they get to the 48th floor, my package should have arrived." The voice said, before letting out a sinister laughter that echoed through a hollow space shrouded in darkness.

…

"That was odd." Victor said, as he looked at the corpses. This was the first time monsters had behaved this way. It was clear that they were being drawn to him, and the was no mention of something like this from the adventurers.

"More are coming, hmm. Let's see…"

Victor could tell that this was just the first wave, as he could hear more thundering steps closing in on his location. He casually brought out his map device and turned it on to look at the map for the current floor..

"Not as complex, but larger. It seems as the dungeon advances, the floors increase in size. Got it." Victor was able to memorize the map so he didn't need to keep checking it as he moved. After he was done, he put it back into his inventory while heading towards the path beasts were coming from.

It was easier to go to them instead of waiting. Besides, he wasn't interested in their flesh. Creating a body with such weak monsters would only serve to create something mediocre in the end. For his second form, Victor was looking to create a world ending monster, one that would force the whole world to unite if they ever hoped to go against it. The first form would just serve as a convenient husk for him to easily move around and enjoy a normal life.

He easily finished his business in the sixth floor, and advanced to the seventh. There was no need to dilly-dally any longer wasting time in the lower low level floors. From the seventh onward, Victor planned to just blaze through, with his primary goal being to reach the higher high level floors.

Victor continued his descent to the higher floors, and just like the adventurers said, the sixth floor down to the fourteenth floor had beast type monsters as the more prominent monster type. Out of every monster he encountered, there was none that was note worthy, and none possessed a desirable skill, so he just blasted through.

The fifteenth floor onward seemed to be also ordinary, filled with weak monsters roaming all over and nothing eye catching enough. The information was that he would encounter insects and snakes, but so far Victor had only been killing insects and was yet to see any reptile. This of course, was only up to the twenty-first floor.

As soon as Victor got to the 21st floor, he noticed an abnormal silence that he was yet to experience so far. It was as though no monsters roamed the dungeon floor. Victor could only think of it as the attitude of reptiles, being silent and sneaky. Was this really normal? He questioned himself, but it was usless to worry. Few assassin reptiles wouldn't stop him from his goal.

He pulled out the map device from his inventory as it then materialized into his hands, then he proceeded to study the floor map. On the map, there was an open section that was quite wide, at least if Victor was to convert it to actual size, it would be as wide as a football pitch, if cut in half.

"Why do I get the feeling that there'll be something eye catching there?" Victor asked, as he thought about it. If it were in games, such an area would house probably a raid boss at the least, and a big one at that.

"My instincts are telling me to go site seeing and take a break from this constant descent. Heh… I would want to stop and catch my breath, but I don't even tire, nor do I feel tired." As Victor said these words, a thought about his old world came into his mind.

'If I turned my father into a zombie earlier in his life, won't he and his boss worship me as a god? Since zombies don't tire, he would basically live at the office and work 24/7… I returned, I would become a multi billionaire.' Victor thought as ideas formed in his head.n0𝓋ℯ𝓵𝑢𝓈𝔅.𝑪0𝑀

"One zombie worker, one million dollars. The entire world's government would be at my doorstep practically begging me to take their money and shit.. Hmm, good thoughts, good thoughts." Something Victor had noticed was that his emotions were practically almost gone. The emotions and feeling were still there, but as if everything was suppressed. Though, this hadn't surprised Victor in the least, he was undead after all. That was one of the things they had going for them.

Not being affected and never being under the influence of his emotions, Victor would always be able to thing and process situations properly and efficiently. He carried on, heading towards the large area he had seen on the map. After some time, Victor arrived at the location, and the sight before him completely threw him off his balance for the slightest millisecond. There was a lot of fog in the entire area, but it wasn't thick enough to stop hinders Victor's vision.

'Is that an actual monster?' Victor thought to himself as he moved closer and into the fog slowly.

What he was seeing before him currently was an enormous figure that only appeared as a shadow through the fog. Victor couldn't tell exactly what kind of monster it was, but the size alone was enough to terrify even a high ranking player.

After getting within a certain range, the whole area started shaking wildly, as though they were at the epicentre of an earthquake. The intense rumbling continued for a short moment, and as it did, the fog covering the entire area began clearing, and by the time the rumbling had subsided, the fog was completely gone.

"Hmm…"

Before Victor, were two gigantous monsters that stood at the same height with a story building for the spider-looking monster, and nothing less than a couple hundred feet for the serpent. Their combined structure was what gave Victor the impression that these monsters were one when he could only see then through the foggy area.

"System, identify these monsters." Victor said, completely calm and unfazed by the ferocious beasts towering over him.

[Dark Poisonous Spider]

[Giant Forest Snake]

As Victor heard the monster's names, his expression turned a bit dumb as he stared at them. 'Poisonous spider? Forest snake? Why is poison in the name of an already poisonous species? And What the hell is a forest creature doing in a cave? The terrain was not even modified to fit the name! Come to think of it, where did the fog come from?' Victor exclaimed in his mind. Surely he thought, whoever was responsible for this blunder in design had to pay very dearly.

As these thoughts bottled up in his mind though, Victor was secretly smiling. In fact, it wasn't only a smile, he was grinning as sinisterly as a grim reaper who had found extra souls. Apart from the names, the system also displayed their levels, and these were officially the first high levelled monsters Victor had encountered in this other world, and he was about to fight them!

[Dark Poisonous Spider Level 47]

[Giant Forest Snake Level 50]

Well, these weren't exactly high levelled to the bone, but-

…

"Hmm? He has arrived? Kikiki, let's see how you disperse and beg for your live! Worm!" A voice said from a dark room.

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[Dark Poisonous Spider Level 47]

[Giant Forest Snake Level 50]

Victor fixed his eyes on the targets before him, their towering structure sending chills down his spine, or at least that was what it was supposed to be.

Merely thinking of it, Victor couldn't stop himself from grinning widely, before the expression faded, bringing his face to normal. It seemed that lately, his zombie side had been overshadowing his human soul. It had become quite noticeable just how cold his heart(not the physical one)had become. But, this didn't bother Victor at all. Not being ruled by his emotions wasn't all that bad, plus he expected it would happen sooner or later, seeing as he was an undead.

The only thing he would say was the down side, was the fact that he wouldn't be able to derive joy from killing the adventurers that killed him earlier. Thinking about it now, maybe he wouldn't kill the next time they meet, that is if they don't act up by then. He no longer hungered for revenge, not even in the slightest.

'After I kill these guys, the experience points should be much, right? I wonder how much?' Victor thought. Well, he would just have to find out himself after killing them.

Apart from the experience points, there was also the matter of evolution material. Things were just good no matter how he looked at it.

Before that though, while the monsters are engaging in their stare down with him, Victor used that opportunity to prepare for the battle. He had no weapons, so the only way was to use his bare hands. Melee combat wouldn't be very helpful against these types, so he could only rely on his animalistic side. Besides, his extra stat points had been lying there collecting dust, he was going to distribute them later anyway.

"First."

Victor was confident in his defences and mana capacity, so he paid less attention to does. The body of a zombie lord wasn't that easy to kill after all.

...

Strength: 85 122

Agility: 70 100

Sense: 54 94

Vitality: 48

Magic: 15

Intelligence: 53

remaining stat point: 117 10

He had also intended to beat these two monsters with pure physical strength without using his skills, but if they do get affected by his passive skill then that would be unfortunate, at least they should hold out till he has beaten them quite a bit.

"This should do, I can already feel the difference in my own strength." The moment he added so much points into his strength stat, he could actually feel his body changing in a weird way, he felt like he could crumble a trailer at that moment, same with his other stats.

Just as he was done with his preparations, the serpent lashed out a surprise attack on Victor, as its tail struck the ground where he stood. Fortunately for him, the speed of the snake looked like the monster was moving in slow-motion, he didn't even need to agitate himself much, as he walked away from where it was striking. "Is this really how a level 50 should be? This is ridiculously slow. Or maybe, it's a strength type monster, hmm." Victor said to himself.

To test his theory, he let the snakes next attack land directly on him without attempting to dodge. After missing to hit its target, the snake followed up its attack by sweeping the group before it with its tail. With an incredible speed for anyone watching, the tail propelled with such force sideways towards Victor, and landed square-

The collision with the earth and with Victor caused a bit of dust to rise, but vision wasn't obstructed for long. When the dust cleared, with was after a couple seconds, Victor could be spotted with his right palm against the serpent's body, as he blocked the tail.

"Hmm. I'm tougher than I thought, or is this snake just weak. How strong are the levels in this world? And how strong is my level? Do I even use the level system of this world?" Victor questioned himself.

He knew of his strength, but at least this level of attack from a beast of this level should have at the very least send him flying, at least. Victor had barely moved a few inches from the attack, and to say the least, he was a bit disappointed.

"I was going to take my time, but maybe I should just end this quickly." Victor said, as he pushed the giant tail that stood as tall as himself away.

He jumped towards the towards the snake's head, as he propelled himself through the air, and in a split second he was already almost close, when he sensed something. Twisting his body in an awkward manner, he flipped himself mid air, and seemed to have dodged something that his eyes couldn't pick up. As he landed at the snake's head, he pushed himself off and towards a close by wall. While he did, the spider that had just been watching the show jumped back several metres, and as its legs touched the ground, a stream of purplish-green fluid shot from it towards Victor.

Seeing the incoming liquid which Victor needed no explanation to know was poison, he leapt immediately towards a raised platform on the same side of the wall and avoided the attack. Though, the whole thing wasn't intense in any way for Victor.

From his perspective, the soaring fluid was like a floating bubble not worthy to be an attack. But, that wasn't something he wanted on his body if he could help it. There are acids that can easily melt through steel; heck the HCL in a human's stomach can accomplish the same feat. Testing poison from magical monsters wasn't exactly something he was going to use himself for. When the fluid touched the rocky surface, it began to melt and liquefy.

Victor ignored that, and stared at the spider. After taking a closer look, he noticed something around the space where the spider was. "Are those webs?.. No way, right?" Victor said, as a thought came to him.

In all fantasy related things where spiders were mentioned, be it manga, anime or novels, there was one thing this particular monster was always said to have. "Steel threads? It has to be. So that's what I sensed? Hm, not bad."n0𝒱ℯ𝑳𝐮𝕊𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

At this point, Victor was through with these monsters. There was nothing special they had to offer except for their exp and flesh. He had overestimated his opponent this time. "Let's end this." Victor said, as his dark red eyes shone even brighter from afar while he stared at the monsters.

TuumM!!

The cave braced the loud rumble as Victor shot from the platform he was on towards the serpent. These monsters had been completely disappointing, unbefitting of their status, at least, to Victor.

With a spinning mid-air naeryeo chagi(Axe kick) to the serpent's head, Victor forced a head plant right into the hard ground. If an X-ray could be taken at that moment, it was clear that several bones had either broken or shifted severely out of place. He followed immediately with a falling punch, but at the last minute withdrew his punch. An idea had come to him.

"I wasn't going to use skills, but guess it can't be helped. I don't want your body too damaged." Victor said, as he placed his palm on the serpent's head.

"Touch of Death." Victor said.

Following his words, a black coloured energy enveloped his hand, and then as if it slipped into the serpent's body, a portion of this energy felt him, then it disappeared.

'Since the skill level is low, it's probably able to work since the monster is in a weakened state and already close to death." Victor said, as he received a system notification.

[Killed Giant Forest Snake]

60,000exp

Level: 20 (0/91,360) (60,000/91,360)

"Hmm."

Within a few seconds, Victor was done with the serpent, and moved towards the spider, which he also killed effortlessly.

[Killed Dark Poisonous Spider]

51,000

Level: 20 (60,000/91,360) (111,000/91,360) (19,640/113,450)

[You have levelled up]

…

"Now, I should take just enough, I don't need too much." Victor found a favourable spot and dug into the spiders flesh, digging out enough to use as evolution material.

[New sample detected. Analysing sample]

He did the same with to the serpent, and the system prompted a similar message. Now that he had gotten their material, it was time. After dragging their corpse to the same location, Victor stood before them.

Using his thoughts, Victor activated skill, [Legion of the Dead]

[This is the first time this skill is been used. Please, assign a command word]

"…" There was no way he would throw this opportunity.

"Arise."

[Command word assigned]

As soon as Victor uttered this word, the corpse before him twitched a bit, and before his very eyes, the serpent turned pale as colour felt its skin.

A few more seconds passed, and then the spider shook slowly, before rising to it's feet, same with the serpent. As they rose up once more, Victor got a strange feeling, as an innate connection between himself and the two creatures was felt deep in him.

It was strange, but deep within his person, Victor felt the two monsters, like they had a place in him, like they would never betray him, the new found bond felt stronger that that of blood. It was truly supernatural and astonishing.

"This feeling, I guess you guys won't become a Judas by my side, huh?" Victor said.

[Dark Poisonous Spider has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Dark Poisonous Spider Level 40]n0𝚟𝑒𝐋𝔲𝚜𝔟.𝗰0𝓂

[Giant Forest Snake has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Giant Forest Snake Level 40]

"Hmm, that's expected I guess."

[You have acquired two undying soldiers that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve].

"Hmm, this ok."

After that, Victor inspected the now walking corpses, precisely, where he had taken out pieces of flesh. Just like he thought, any injury or deformity sustained before they became zombies were retained, and would remain so forever, unless under special conditions.

"This is good enough." Victor said.

[Legion of the Dead]

Call forth an army of undead to do your bidding.

Level: 1

Mana cost: none

Legion: 2/5…

Dark Poisonous Spider: Level – 40

Giant Forest Snake: Level – 40

"Is this all the information provided? Well, I guess levelling up the skill will solve that." Victor said, his now unnatural calmness exuding coldness.

From that point on, Victor didn't encounter any more abnormalities as he climbed the floors. His skill 'Legion of the Dead' was able to store a certain number of undead for him to summon at any time to do his bidding, but it had another effect. All his undead under the legion could also level up and unlike regular zombies, they had a higher level of intelligence.

Though his subordinates could grow stronger by levelling up, Victor didn't have time to allow them kill go around killing monsters, besides, they were not a cheat character like himself. Because of his title [One Who is Favoured by 'The Process'] Victor is able to bypass level restrictions when it came to leveling, but his skills couldn't be shared, so these two monsters under him were under the normal laws. Even after killing 10,000 zombies, they won't level up.

That, was something Victor thought to look at later. On the 29th floor, Victor came across another though opponent after descending the previous floors rather peacefully.

With every floor he descended, Victor noticed just how vast the one after gets. From the first floor where the size was like that of a mansion's compound, to the current floor, the 29th floor where the size was nothing smaller than a mid-sized village. Unlike the last time on the 21st floor, this time Victor encountered the monster by chance and didn't go looking for it.

"What is this energy? Is this a beast's aura?" Victor thought to himself. Maybe t was the influence of the knowledge from earth, seeing as Victor was something of an otaku. There was no better way to describe it.

As he moved closer to the spot he noticed the figure of a monster half the size and height of the two he had taken in to be part of his legion. This time, there was no fog or obstruction insight, so Victor could see the monster right away.

It was a white tiger.

"Isn't that a tiger? What's a tiger doing in the reptile and insect section of the supermarket?" Victor questioned, starting to think who ever designed the cave must be some what dumb.

The system quickly identified the monster for Victor, and after seeing the name of the monster, Victor couldn't help but think the person who designed the cave was actually dumb.

[White Mountain Tiger Level 50]

"Well, the experience points are welcome." Victor said, as he dashed forward without warning, even before the tiger noticed him.

The beast was sitting on top a mound of large rocks with its eyes closed. Unlike last time, Victor wasn't interested in dragging this one out, so he went straight for the kill. The tiger had heightened senses, so half way before Victor reached it, it had sensed him coming already, and only managed to dodge at the last second.

Actually, it had turn out that the tiger wasn't the one that dodge, instead it was Victor who didn't attack. He was already thinking of adding the beast as one of his subordinates, so he didn't want it to sustain much injury, if possible none.

Though the tiger had managed to dodge, that miracle was unfortunately one in a lifetime kind of miracle, as now Victor was only some couple metres away from the tiger. With his mind, he activated the skill 'Touch of Death'

[Touch of Death]

Instantly cause critical damage to any target touched with your hands. Continues contact will increase the damage dealt.

Level: 1

Mana cost: 10/s

(A/N: I adjusted the effects of the skill.)

Before the tiger could think it's next course of action, Victor was standing on top of it as he vanished in a flash from where he was standing. He placed his right hand on the tigers head, and in just a few seconds the tiger collapsed on the floor, dead.

[Killed White Mountain Tiger]

60,000EXP

As he came down from the tiger's back, he got a system notification.

[System analysis complete. Dark Poisonous Spider has been analyzed]

[System analysis complete. Giant Forest Snake has been analyzed]

[Due to small amount of evolution material, choices of evolution are limited]

"I expected that." Victor decided it was time for him to try evolving and mixing other creatures into himself to see the results.

Before, he wasn't too keen on doing this, as he wanted to maintain a human appearance, but now, he just wanted to get stronger. "Or maybe I should still maintain my first form so. I'll do that." Victor couldn't help but think.

'My soul has really become undead right? I for someone who was once human, I don't-'

Victor kept that idea out for the mean time. Before him now was the corpse of the tiger he had just killed, and following it was the exp he had gotten after killing it. Now, he was going to fetch some flesh, than the beast will be turned into his subordinate.

(19,640/113,450) (79,640/113,450)

[New sample detected. Analysing sample]

The system notification prompted Victor after he swallowed a chunk of the monsters flesh. He wasted little time after that and proceeded to raise the tiger as part of his legion.

There was something he noticed this time, after the tiger died, a short while later a cross appeared above the beast's corpse, floating just above it. Victor needed no explanation, as he knew what it meant, so he approached the tiger, and with the trigger word he rose the beast.

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve]

[White Mountain Tiger has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]n0𝔳𝔢𝓵𝑢𝐒𝑏.𝒸0𝑀

[White Mountain Tiger Level 40].

After checking out the beast for some quick seconds, Victor put him away. Seeing as he had found the tiger unexpectedly while heading for the door to the next floor, Victor thought maybe if he did more exploring and went around the whole dungeon, he would be able to find something useful.

Unfortunately, after wasting his time to navigate through the entire floor, he didn't find anything noteworthy. "A complete waste of my time. Maybe I should leave these encounters to fate." Victor said, as he headed back towards the door to the next floor.

He began his descent, just like always when going to another floor, but half way through he encountered water. Because of the narrowness of the passage way to the next floor, it meant for the most part he would have to travel underwater, at least until he got to the next floor.

Although Victor hesitated for a moment, he quickly remembered that he didn't need normal bodily functions to stay alive. He quickly checked if he was even breathing to begin with, though he had checked this before, he wanted to make sure, just in case.

As Victor found out, he still breathed normally like any living thing would, but when he held his breath, there was no discomfort, and he didn't run out of breath. 'The perks of being a zombie.' Victor thought, as he approached the water slowly. Another thing he wasn't sure of was how underwater combat would be like. 'Guess we'll have to find out.' All he needed to do was get a touch on his target, and that was it.

Victor wasted no more time, and dived into the water. Under water, he found breathing not to be a problem, after all he could just hold his breath for as long as he wanted. After a while, Victor came to a point where he could see a bit of light above, so he headed out. The cave had these little crystals stuck to the walls and ceiling that emit light(I forgot to point this out sooner) Though the light produced is never enough and is just as much as a dim moonlight in most areas, Victor as an undead had no problem seeing at all.

He swam towards the closest land, and after getting out of the water, he continued his journey towards the door to the next floor. As a zombie, he needed not to dry his clothes as he didn't catch a cold nor get skin disease, it was just perfect.

Quickly, he pulled out the device that had the map, and after studying it for a while, he placed it back into his inventory. There was something else he wanted to try, so he brought out the serpent.

"Come forth, giant forest snake." Victor said, and following his words the ground a couple feet away from him covered with mysterious black smoke as the serpent emerged from the smoke.

Looking at its size now, Victor changed his plan. What he wanted to do was let the serpent go towards the door to the next floor after giving it some instructions. This was to test how intelligent the beast was, or at least how much they could follow orders. But, the fact that it could get stuck in some part of the cave that might be narrowed was the reason why he changed his mind.

"You are too big." Victor said. He also thought f whether he could name them, as calling them by their species name was a bit tiring.

"System, is it possible to name my legion members?" Victor asked.

[Yes. Would you like to name them?]

"Yes." Victor answered.

The same mysterious black smoke that felt ethereal started forming and covering the area around the snake, and after a while the tiger and the spider came into view.

[Please, grant a name to your legion members]

"Hmm, You." Victor said, as he shifted his attention to the spider. "I don't know what gender you are, though." Victor said, as he rubbed his chin a bit. He looked at the system, but even the system couldn't tell what gender the spider was. So, Victor just went with instincts. The spider wasn't intelligent enough to notice anything, so it didn't matter in the end.

"You shall be called, Arac." Victor said. At the moment when he gave the monster it's name, something changed within Victor, as he could feel the bond between them strengthen and grow. "What a feeling. It's like I can tell what this guy is thinking.. or something like that, I guess."

"You shall be called, Konda." Victor named the snake.

"And you, I want something fierce, something that shows power." Victor said, as he looked at the tiger. "How about, Gurok. Yes, let's go with that. From now, you are Gurok." Similar to the other two, Victor also left the bond between him and the tiger strengthen, but unlike the other two, this one was more powerful and deeper.

'This… Is it because I put more thought into his name? But I don't know what it means though. Or is it because he is a beast, and beasts bon better than reptiles and insects?' Victor thought to himself.

He couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor creatures. Victor wasn't the best when it came to naming things, especially living things, and he didn't want to give them human names either, that would just be weird, so these guys could only cherish whatever names he gave them.

[Note. Members with a deep connection with you can also be evolved through the system to a certain extent]

The system said, while Victor was still checking his monsters. This news was a good one, as it meant he would be able to make them stronger.

"This is good news. I wonder how much I can enhance them through evolution." Victor said, with a bit of anticipation.

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After sometime, Victor got to the door that led to the next floor. On the 30th floor, Victor noticed that the terrain was still made up of land for the majority of it, and only from time to time did he encounter water. Also, compared to the other floors this one was smaller.

He continued his descent, through the floors without any problems. Any monster he encountered only took one touch to kill, or a single bite, and they were dead. Apart from that, most of the weaker monsters avoided him, so the whole journey was smooth and rather easy.

Finally, Victor arrived at the door that lead to the 40th floor, and as he entered the path down, he couldn't wait to see what kind of monsters he would be facing.

'This sure is exciting.' Victor said in his mind, as he descended the path.

Finally getting to the 40th floor, Victor was a bit disappointed as even after walking for some minutes, he had encountered no monsters.

"I thought there'll be high level monsters crawling everywhere. Guess I expected too much, huh?"

Victor continued on his path through the floor, this time without a map to guide him. The map device became useless as soon as he came into the 40th floor, so all he could do was explore while following his instincts.

After a while more of walking around, Victor finally encountered his first monster.

[Grey Lycan Level 50]

Looking at the creature, Victor was nothing short of impressed. It's mere form eluded power and strength, and it's appearance was ferocious. But, seeing as it was a level 50, Victor wasn't expecting much from it, but he quickly decided on what to do.

The beast of a monster looked exactly like a werewolf, standing on two legs with a height of at least two and a half metres. It's animalistic features far dominated it's appearance, and it looked aggressive without needing to confront it. It was the perfect creature one would wish not to have at a dance party, instead, a vampire would be more welcomed.

The moment the beast noticed Victor, it started growling as more of its skin tearing teeth were exposed. Victor just stood still waiting for the beast to attack, but it didn't immediately. After a few more seconds, Victor began walking towards it trying to bait it into attacking. Surely, the beast took the bait and dashed forward with speed far exceeding its size.

'Thought werewolves were a bit slower than vampires.' Victor thought to himself. Though, at that moment he remembered quite a few times werewolves were depicted to be faster. 'Guess it all depends on he who makes the movie.' Victor said in his mind as he side stepped the beast's attack and cleanly avoided it's claws..

'No shit.' The claws were at least twice as long as the 'White Mountain Tiger's' and as a proof of its strength and sturdiness, the grey lycan was able to effortlessly destroy part of the cave wall on impact.

After defending and dodging the grey lycan's attacks for a bit more, Victor was sure he wanted to get his hands on the beast's material. He was still superior when it came to stats, but the raw power the beast showed was definitely something. 'If I combine a bit of this guy to the tiger, or similar, I should get something interesting, for sure.' Victor thought to himself.

Now, after accessing the opponent's strength, Victor was ready to do away with the beast. It was yet to use any of it's skills, but Victor wasn't interested.

The part of the cave where their little fight was going on was a tunnel-like space, but it was big and spacious enough for them to jump around without much problem.

The grey lycan attempted to pounce on Victor, but Victor leapt towards the cave wall to the right side, then just as the beast touched ground Victor also pushed off of the wall and shot with considerable speed, sinking his fingers deep into the beast's flesh after tearing through the hide easily.

He had dug his fingers just behind the beast's shoulder, as before the grey lycan could react and retaliate, Victor dug in more of his hand, and ripped off the flesh that went from the shoulder down to it's tail. Victor then leaped back a few metres, and with no hesitation chugged down the chunk of flesh before the beast.

[New sample detected. Analysing sample]

"Hmm."

Victor waited for a while, as neither he nor the beast launched an attack. Just over ten seconds later, Victor noticed the wound he had just inflicted on the grey lycan's back healing. "So this is the healing ability of the werewolves, not bad. But not fast either.

In one move, too fast for the grey lycan to notice, Victor appeared above the beast and with a powerful punch sent it face first into the ground. Due to the lycan's powerful tenacity and life-force, it hadn't died from the attack, so as Victor landed just beside it, he dug two of his hands into the beast's neck and tore it's head from it's body, instantly killing it.

What was the need for senseless blood spilling you ask? It was because it was possible.

"Maybe I'll add this guys claws to my hands. I really need a weapon." Victor said, as he took a seat beside the corpse.

Without prayers, Victor dug into the lycan's flesh and began ingesting evolution material upon material.

[Killed Grey Lycan]

65,000EXP

[You have levelled up]

Status

Level: 22 (31,190/150,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 1665/1665 1715/1715

Mp: 1330/1330 1380/1380

[Stat]

Strength: 122 124

Agility: 100 102

Sense: 94 95

Vitality: 48

Magic: 15

Intelligence: 53

remaining stat point: 10 15

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-1, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max

Beep Beep

[System analysis complete. White Mountain Tigre has been analyzed]

After that, he left the area and continued his exploration of the floor. He came across two more grey lycans, and just as before easily disposed of them.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 150000/500000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 5000

"System, I can drop materials that I won't use right?" Victor asked.

After a while, he was sure that the materials he would collect would become an unending list. "Come to think of it, I'm immortal. Plus I can't be killed, so, this shit will become endless."

[Yes. Disposing of evolution material is possible]n0𝒱ℯ𝑳𝐮𝕊𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

"Good. I will have to drop some in the future."

As Victor kept going on the path, he suddenly felt something was amiss.

"Something's here, close."

"I can feel the presence of something." Victor said as he scanned his surroundings.

He couldn't see anything, but he could sense the presence of it. While he looked around for some seconds trying to find whatever it was he was feeling the presence of, the system gave him a prompt.

Beep

[Ghost Gecko Level 20]

"Ghost? Is it really a ghost? Like with no physical form?" Victor asked.

[It is a creature with the ability to enter a ghost state for a period of time] The system answered.

"Well, that's cool." Victor said, as he turned forward and activated his skill, [Negative Burst] Since It dealt magical damage, the ghost form was useless and definitely not an advantage.

[Killed Ghost Gecko]

27000EXP

(31,190/150,000) (58,190/150,000).

After that, a whitish reptilian creature fell from the dungeon ceiling behind Victor, lifeless.

"Not bad. Will I be able to turn invisible after integrating it into myself with evolution?" Victor asked the system.

[The creature's invisibility seems to be the effect of a skill, simply having the body does not guarantee you having it's skills]

[If the skill is analyzed from the sample provided, it might be possible to gain the skill]

"I see. That also works well for me."

As Victor kept exploring, the dungeon started blessing him little by little as he ran into more Ghost Geckos, exactly 7, and 3 other Grey Lycans.

"This was a good harvest. Status."

Status

Level: 24 (42,190/400,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 1765/1765 1815/1815

Mp: 1430/1430 1480/1480

[Stat]

Strength: 124 125

Agility: 103 105

Sense: 94 95

Vitality: 48 50

Magic: 15

Intelligence: 53

remaining stat point: 20 25

[Innate Ability]

Undead Body

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-1, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max

Victor had leveled up twice, and also collected enough evolution material from both the grey wolves and the ghost gecko.

He had gone very deep into the floor at this point, but still hadn't found the way to the next floor. After walking around for a while more, he noticed something on the walls by one side of the cave. He had been looking for something like this as he suspected it, but finally, he had seen one.

The markings on the cave wall weren't something ancient or runic, they were just directions left behind by those that were here before him, most definitely the adventurers. "This is what I've been looking for." Victor said as he approached the wall with the inscriptions. From there on, Victor began following the inscriptions and gradually made his way to the path that led to the next floor.

"Finally here." Victor said, with the dead body of a grey lycan dragged along with his hand. He dropped the body where he stood, and then proceeded into the path that led to the next floor.

The next floor wasn't so different, same terrain as the previous floor. The only difference with this one was that monsters didn't shy away and were in abundance, to an extent. At least when compared to the previous floor they were.

There was something Victor had a problem with, though. This world was one where everyone had a level, but he wasn't sure if everyone also had a system. Good thing was unlike himself, the stronger one gets, the harder it gets to grow in level, and no bonus exp is given, this was not a game world. Because of this, Victor was sure that he had a cheat on himself. It was like going to a mecha war and you could use 'cpktnwt' simply god-like.

"With this, doesn't that mean there'll be a lot of weak people? I haven't even reached level 30 and I already require up to 400,000 exp to level up. This is simply insane." Victor said. He could only imagine the amount of exp he would need when he has to level up to say level 200 or something. "Will I even be able to get such an amount?" Victor queried.

Either way, he couldn't dwell on this matter now. It was simply far too early for that. As Victor first stepped into the 41st floor, he could already hear the movement of monsters around close-by. "This is better than the last floor, I have to use this opportunity and level up in this dungeon." The adventurers said this dungeon he was in was an abnormal one, so he couldn't say for sure if dungeons with such high level monsters were in other places.n0𝒱ℯ𝑳𝐮𝕊𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

When Victor had explored this floor he was in a bit, and killed a couple of its monsters, it was clear what kind of floor it was. This was definitely an insect stage kind of floor, as he had only been encountering large ants that always attacked in groups.

This was sure to be one of the toughest floors mainly because of the monster type. Even low level ants are difficult to kill as they don't die easily and have a rather tenacious lifeforce. Now however, the ants had extremely strong defenses with their though exoskeletons, and their attacking capability was nothing to scuff at either.

The ants weren't the typical ones that looked like giant ants, rather they looked like a giant ant that had some sort of mutation and gained a bit from the mantis and a spider. It was quite clear they were ants, but they had eight legs, using six for mobility as normal and the first pair as weapons. The front legs resembled thick blades and could slice through rock easily, coupled with their extremely strong mandibles that looked completely horrifying-

Even with all this, to Victor, it was nothing much to show off. He could easily break the exoskeleton like cardboard, and the blade-like pair of hands that were supposed to strike terror couldn't even leave a proper scratch on his body. Though, it did tear his trousers quite a bit.

Before anything, Victor had already thought of a good way to use the ant after extracting some evolution material from it.

As it turned out, blood could also be used as evolution material. This Victor already knew, but didn't rely on it since it was more efficient to just eat the flesh and get it from there than indulge in the process of draining blood. This, was for other monsters.

These ants seemed to have most of their insides to be more jelly-like and nothing similar to their exoskeleton, and since Victor wasn't going to stay there and chew on rock like material, he found a way to suck out the insides of the ants. Making the process way faster, and also easier.

At this point, he had collected a lot of evolution material, and before going to the next floor, he thought to do some experiment first.

"This will be very interesting."

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"Alright, let's check what can be done with evolution." Victor said, as he sat down on the ground and brought out the system panel.

He had some ideas in his head already on what he wanted to do, and which monsters he wanted to evolve, and with some of the samples yet to be analyzed, his options were a bit slimmer.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000.

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 30,000 (can evolve further)

After going through the list, the first thing that caught Victor's eye was the last creature on the list, the mantant which could be evolved further. After the zombie, which was his base form, this was the only other one that he could evolve, for now.

While he was going through everything and the possible combinations, a system notification appeared.

[System analysis complete. Grey Lycan has been analyzed]

Seeing this system notification gave Victor an idea, so he put away the evolution of things for a while. Seeing as the mantant could be evolved further, he wanted to have an actual mantant in his legion. With that, he would also be able to evolve the individual mantant to the next stage.

Technically, Victor was only interested in seeing what the evolved mantant would look like and how much stronger they would be in comparison to the normal mantants. If it did well, he would consider leaving that mantant as part of his legion, if not he can always discard it.

It didn't take long after moving around a bit before Victor found a life mantant. He had seen some corpses, but didn't want to use those ones as they were too damaged physically.

Without much stress, Victor activated his touch of death and killed it within five seconds. With this method, the body was preserved and would look mostly normal after being raised from the dead. Some seconds later, almost immediately, a cross appeared above the corpse, indicating that Victor could raised it into his legion.

"Arise." Victor said.

With the command word, the corpse twitched and then slowly got up. Like others, the colour of the mantant's exoskeleton became dull, as the brilliant black that once covered it's body became a bit faded.

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve]

[Mantant has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Mantant Level 40]

Victor withdrew the monster after this and left the area, returning to the area close to the path that led to the next floor.

As he approached that part of the cave, the system gave some notifications that made Victor happy.

[System analysis complete. Ghost Gecko has been analyzed]

[System analysis complete. Mantant has been analyzed]

"Oh, good. Everything is set now." Victor said, as he approached the area.

The side he had sat at before was too small, so he moved from that side to another that had a bigger space.

"System, show me all the possible evolutions between all my legion members." Victor said.

Before him, a screen appeared, a bit wider than the normal system panel. It displayed numerous possible evolutions between Victor's legion members. Each was unique, but also there were some that made no sense at all. Victor carefully went through the ones that he saw best to choose, and as he did the rest of the options disappeared leaving those he had chosen.n0𝒱ℯ𝑳𝐮𝕊𝑩.𝓬0𝓂

"These ones are the best." Victor said as he looked at the options.

There were many good options to choose from, but not all were that great when Victor considered the effect of the features. Besides, he didn't know what the future evolutions hold, so he could only go with the best for the moment.

Apart from the ones he had chosen, Victor shifted the evolution panel to the side and called up another system panel. Before he started, he wanted to put the mantant to evolve further. Since the evolution material wasn't bonded with any creature, he wasn't really sure how effective evolving it would be. But since the system said it's good, it must be so, Victor thought.

-Mantant – 30,000/20,000 (can evolve further)

Next evolution – Mantisant

"Start evolution on the Mantant." Victor said.

[Starting evolution on the Mantant]

[Evolution will now and will take 20 minutes]

[During evolution Mantant cannot be summoned]

"Alright, good."

"Now, let's look at the others."

Just like when he had tried to evolve using the fiery tailed wolf, a large system panel expanded before him, and on it different three dimensional images appeared on it with their respective information.

The first one Victor chose was an evolution for Arac. This evolution was combining the mantant with Arac by incorporating some of the mantant's features into Arac. This evolution was going to reinforce Arac's exoskeleton with the mantant's extremely tough exoskeleton, and also add their pair of front blade hands.

The second was for Gurok, and his was simple. Although there was the possibility of turning Gurok into a two legged walking powerhouse by combing him with a grey lycan, Victor did want to make such an advanced evolution using a weak monster. Maybe if he could find a higher rank werewolf or something, but not a low rank grey lycan.

The Fiery Tailed Wolf was the one that was incorporated into Gurok, and the effects of this gave Gurok a fiery red coloured tail, and the pattern ran through the middle of his back up to his shoulders. This evolution also gave him an AOE skill, albeit a low ranked one, probably.

For Konda, Victor had wanted to put him together with the gecko, which was also the only other creature which material he had Konda was compatible with. But, none of the possible evolutions would grant Konda a skill, so it was useless.

"This should be enough for now." Victor said.

Just like the mantant, each of these evolutions took anything between 10 and 20 minutes to be completed. So Victor could only wait. By the time he was done choosing the evolution paths for two of his subordinates, he got a pleasant system notification.

[Evolution of Mantant complete]

[Mantant has evolved into Mantisant]

[Level of Mantisant has increased]

[New skills have been added]

"Perfect, just in time." Victor said, as he smirked a little, before the smirk disappeared again.

"Come forth, Mantisant."

As Victor said this words, the monster emerged from a smoke like darkness that had appeared before its appearance.

"Hmm, guess I'll have to name you now then."

As the smoke disappeared, what Victor saw wasn't what he expected at all. The ant-like monster from before had completely transformed and now stood on two legs like a human. Its dark exoskeleton with a blue under tone in some parts would have looked very beautiful, if it wasn't for the undead traits.

"Awesome. A complete change."

The mantisant hadn't lost much from its old body, though. It stood on two legs, and had four arms with wings on its back. The main arms which were the ones connected directly to the shoulder still had blades for hands, but the ones under were more normal with three 'fingers'. As for its head, it still looked very insect-like. It was considerably taller than Victor as it stood close to 7 feet.

"From now on, you shall be called Amadon." Victor said, and just like other times he named his legion the same feeling he felt.

"Now, I imagine your exoskeleton has become even stronger, so let's test that." Victor said, as he moved closer to the monster.

Casually swinging his hand sideways, Victor blasted Amadon cleanly away from where he stood into the dungeon wall. After a while, Amadon came out barely harmed. .n0𝔳𝔢𝓵𝑢𝐒𝑏.𝒸0𝑀

"Pretty good development, huh? At least a casual strike from me doesn't damage you much this time." Victor said while rubbing a beardless chin, as always. Though the strike looked effortless, he had put in a bit of force behind it, so the increase in defence was good. If everything went ok, then the attack should have increased as well.

"I'll test that on the next floor."

[Legion of the Dead]

Call forth an army of undead to do your bidding.

Level: 1

Mana cost: none

Legion: 4/5…

Arac: Level – 40

Konda: Level – 40

Gurok: Level – 40

Amadon: Level – 45

After checking the level of each monster in his legion, Victor also confirmed that he still couldn't see more information about the individual monsters. Simultaneously, the system gave two notifications that indicated the completion of the evolution of the other monsters.

[Evolution of Arac complete]

[Evolution of Gurok complete]

[Gurok acquired a new skill]

"Hmm." 'Time to go to the next floor.'

Victor approached the path to the next floor, and entered immediately.

…

This floor wasn't as lively as the last. There weren't many monsters in the floor, and so far Victor was yet to meet any. After walking about for a bit, he ran into a monster that looked almost exactly like the Grey Lycan he saw on the 40th floor, only thing was this one was black.

[Black Lycan Level 50] The system indicated.

"Hmm."

Victor, this time didn't bother testing or waiting for the beast to show its strengths. He just went straight for the kill. One strong punch was enough to instantly kill the beast.

Maybe it was because of the zombie lord physic and his increased stats, the fact that killing level 50 creatures was so easy didn't seem too realistic to Victor. Normally, doing something like that should be impossible unless Victor was in possession of some kind of high grade equipment, which he wasn't, or he had some kind of skill active, which also he didn't.

'System, can you explain why it's possible for me to kill creatures many levels above me?' Victor asked, mentally.

[Your level and stats do not correspond with the norm. For example, with a strength value of 100, you might be able to go toe to toe with a creature with a strength value of 150]

[Your extremely strong physic also plays a role in increasing your overall attack and defence]

'Isn't that too overpowered? It makes no sense. Why is this?'

[I do not know]

Hearing the system's answer, Victor didn't bother pushing it. If the system had the answer, it would tell him. Even if it just didn't want to tell him, there was no way to push it. The most important thing was that it was in his favour.

He encountered another monster that resembled a Minotaur, but was bigger. The monster held a large battle axe that reached the floor, and a shield in its right hand. Merely looking at it, Victor could tell it was a strong monster. It wore a getup like a Spartan warrior without the helmet.

[Minotaur Level 85]

Victor couldn't tell just how strong the Minotaur would be since he had basically played with all other monsters he encountered. The minotaur was a physical oriented fighter with a tough physic, and with a level of 85, Victor was hoping it would be strong.

"Let's try it out." Victor said, as he walked closer to the beast of a monster.

With a resounding roar that echoed through the cave as the sound continuously bounced around the walls, the minotaur charged directly at Victor with surprising speed for its size. The speed the minotaur charged with was definitely faster than anything Victor had faced before, so it took him a little unawares, but he still dodged.

Victor didn't respond with an attack of his own, instead he jumped to the side, creating distance between both of them.

Unlike with other monsters that looked like slow moving characters to Victor, this minotaur moved in normal speed to Victor, and he actually had to react with fast reflexes when he avoided its large axe.

Victor had many skills that he could use to end the fight in a few moves, but he wanted to test the limits of his physical body against this stronger enemy. With his eyes fixed on the minotaur, Victor extended his fingers out like claws, before relaxing them. He was ready to go, with the minotaur.

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"Let's go." Victor said as he stared at the minotaur, not putting out any particular emotion.

The minotaur lifted its axe from the ground slowly and turned to face Victor. Again, with a burst of energy, it charged at him with explosive speed while swinging down its axe on him.

Boom

Again, the axe misses, or more accurately Victor dodges as he side steps the attack. The attacks were fast, but they weren't difficult to avoid as Victor could still follow the attacks if he just focused a little. With every attack, Victor could see multiple openings to land his own strike. The minotaur's attacks were strong but also wide.

"So power in the attack is there but it's wide." Victor noted.

Instead of attacking, he had only been dodging the minotaur's attacks while studying its movements and attack patterns. There wasn't much to analyse even, as the attack pattern was pretty simple, just wide powerful strikes nothing complex. It also didn't use its other fist to maybe punch or hold him down, it just swung its big axe one handed.

After avoiding a couple attacks, Victor decided it was time. As the minotaur swung its huge axe again, and like other times Victor side steps and avoids the axe, then with a strong fist, Victor threw a powerful punch right into the minotaur's mid section as he leaped into the air.

Victor's punch sent the minotaur skating a few metres back, but for the first time in a long while, the minotaur was fine. Now, up until now all the monsters or beasts Victor had faced either died after one punch from him, or were unable to get to their feet. This minotaur however was fine, even standing after it took a direct punch..

"It's defense is quite something now, ain't it?" Victor said, still with a plain expression.

Victor was a little intrigued after this, so instead of waiting for the minotaur to attack, he made the first move. Victor, with a burst of speed shot towards the monster, and using the momentum plus his strength, he landed another punch on the minotaur that was slightly obstructed by its axe.

Seeing Victor coming, the minotaur instinctively raised its weapon to defend itself, but it wasn't able to react fast enough and most of Victor's punch reached it regardless.

This second punch sent the minotaur a couple metres back once again, but it was still able to remain on its feet, without falling. Victor not letting it catch its breath charged in immediately. He could see the monster gritting its teeth hard in pain, as it bragged its large battle axe with both hands. It was finally getting serious, Victor thought.

Moving the long handle of the axe before it, the minotaur blocked Victor's fist. Seeing this, Victor twisted his body mid-air, and as his leg collided with the axe, he knocked the axe to the side together with the minotaur as it gripped hard unto it. The speed was fast, but as the minotaur was dragged to the side by its axe, it still managed to turn its body enough to land a good kick on Victor.

Because of the size of the minotaur, one of its hoof was enough to cover Victor's whole mid section including his chest. The kick came from point blank range so Victor couldn't do anything about it, plus it was strong. It sent him flying backwards until he met with the dungeon's ceiling, then fell back down.

"Not bad, this guy's strong." Victor said as he jumped back up unharmed. Seeing that nothing had happened to him, Victor only further confirmed his body's durability and toughness.

Both of them charged at each other after a little stare down, and the fight continued.

For a while, it seemed like both of them were going toe to toe, but it didn't take long to see that the minotaur was starting to tire, and could no longer keep up with Victor. Using its axe, the minotaur blasted a ton of rock and dust into the air obstructing their fight, then both sides jumped back.

As the dust cleared, Victor looked at the monster as its muscles bulged up.

'What's happening.' Victor thought to himself.

He stopped halfway as he watched the bizarre scene before him. The minotaur's whole body began wobbling all over in little ways. In two seconds or less, a dark red energy burst out of the minotaur, and its eyes changed completely and became bloodshot.

It grabbed its great axe and let out an ear tearing roar as it took two steps forward, leaving clear footprints on the hard ground.

'Such heavy steps.' Victor thought.

With a burst of energy, the minotaur shot towards Victor with terrible speed, and for the first time, Victor had to use everything within him to avoid the attack, and only did by inches. 'What is this?' Victor thought.

"System."

Beep

[The monster has entered a frenzied state. The skill Berserker is most likely active]

"No wonder. That might be the only way to explain this sudden burst of speed and strength." Victor said. He already suspected this, but just wanted to make sure. Just to be sure.

If Victor was to go by the knowledge he already possesses concerning this skill, it is able to increase overall attack by more than a 100%, and with so much increase, he wasn't sure if he would be able to keep up.

After dodging the minotaur, it had passed him by a lot due to its speed and the gap between both of them was more than a couple metres at this point. Victor, using this opportunity quickly pulled up his status window. This was the perfect time to use his extra stat points.

Agility: 105 125

Sense: 95 100

Remaining stat point: 25 0

..n0𝑽𝑬𝐿𝑈𝓈𝕓.𝑐0𝑚

"Hah."

The minotaur once again let out a loud roar then charged towards Victor swinging its great axe that weighed a couple hundred kg around like a little branch. Victor did his best to avoid each attack, and even when he saw an opening, he didn't fall for the temptation to hit. Victor's plan was to hold out till the time was right.

Sure enough, Victor's knowledge didn't fail him. From what he knew, the berserker skill granted massive boost in strength, but came with the downside of reduced mentality and intelligence, so the minotaur's attack was a little random, but there was no plan behind it. It was fighting with pure instincts.

Apart from this, there was another negative side to this skill. After the skill ran its course, the user would be left drained and in a weakened state. That is, if this world followed this rule of cause and effect. Of course, Victor had seen some games where the skill didn't have this penalty, just a long cool down time.

After a couple minutes of fierce fighting, the situation seemed to be playing towards Victor's favour. A bit more and the minotaur had exhausted the time it had in the berserker state and had returned to its normal state.

Victor stopped as he saw the red energy disappear followed by the minotaur collapsing to one knee. Even with this, the minotaur forced itself to stand as it supported itself using its axe, then the red energy surfaced again, albeit not as much as it was.

The minotaur gritted its big teeth and ran forward. In less than a second, it was just before Victor, but then its skill failed it, or it had simply overexerted itself. The red energy disappeared once more, and as its axe swung towards Victor from the side threatening to cut him in half, Victor skillfully moved forward and disarmed the minotaur.

Using the same motion, Victor took advantage of the momentum and carried the axe through the motion. As the minotaur's body passed by, its head was set at the perfect position, and Victor swung down on it still with the same motion, adding all his strength in the swing, and cleanly chopped off the minotaur's head.

As Victor handed on his feet, the minotaur's body crashed onto the ground, while its head rolled forward a couple more feet. The swing from Victor had caused a loud sound as the axe smashed into the hard ground and dust raised with some rock chunks flying everywhere. He left it there and walked towards the minotaur's body.

"Well, that took a while. What's best?"

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Victor walked towards the minotaur, and as he did many ideas started popping into his head. The minotaur for a fact was a very strong monster, and would be a great addition to his units, but there was another use for it he saw.

(I forgot to show Victor's level up after killing the numerous ants in the previous floor. So that will be added to his stats and his level ups will also be showed automatically. For those that need the figures, each ant is about level 35 on average, giving 30,000 exp, and Victor killed around 300 of them before he left the floor, so all together that was around 9,000,000 experience points. Plus the experience points he got from killing the minotaur which was 115,000, that would be 9,115,000)

Status

Level: 32 (1,000,000/2,100,000)

Name: Zombie#2314

Race: Undead(Zombie Lord)

Evolution Material: 1000,…

Class:.

Title: True Undead […, One Who is Favoured by 'The Process' […]

Hp: 2,215/2,215

Mp: 2,000/2,000

[Stat]

Strength: 135

Agility: 130

Sense: 110

Vitality: 50

Magic: 20

Intelligence: 58

remaining stat point: 40

[Innate Ability]

Undead Bodyn0𝑽𝑬𝐿𝑈𝓈𝕓.𝑐0𝑚

[Skill tab]

Passive: All Title, Rot Bite lvl-max, Undead Aura lvl-max, Melee Combat lvl-5, Spearmanship lvl-5

Active: Legion of the Dead lvl-1, Domain of the Dead lvl-1, Touch of Death lvl-1, Negative Burst lvl-max

If Victor was to use this monster to gain evolution material, he could then in turn use that evo material he had gained to maybe strengthen one of his units or even better, create his second form. The second form was something that would be an experiment, so Victor was going to use that basically as a testing husk.

It was decided. Victor needed not think so much. As he approached the minotaur, from its feet, he began tearing off flesh and swallowing. What made eating a bit hard was the fact that Victor had to be careful not to bite the flesh he was going to swallow, not even let his saliva touch its open areas.

Whenever his saliva would touch an open wound or the inner part of the flesh he wanted to swallow, it would rot away, leaving nothing to be tested and used as evolution material. Victor had to open his mouth as wide as possible, then gently drop the chunk of flesh and swallow immediately. His body neutralized the rot effect, so when the flesh gets to his insides, the effect would have been removed and the remaining flesh would be analyzed. At least, this is how he saw it to work for the most part.

It seems getting stronger always came with risks and annoying problems.

"This will take some time. This monster is quite big too." Victor said.

Ever since, he had been continuously descending the dungeon floors as he made it his primary goal. Any other thing that came along the way was just an addition. Since he would have to stay in the current floor for some time, he decided it was time to train his legion. For the sake of experience points, Victor had been the one killing the monsters, so his legion had none to themselves.

To get stronger, they all had to hunt individually and gain experience points to enable them level up, so Victor came up with an idea.

"Come forth, Legion." Victor said.

"Four of you go around and hunt monsters to enable you get stronger. Idling within my body would only make you grow fat and useless." Victor said, while a chunk of flesh hung from his hand.

Victor also instructed them to run if they encountered any strong creature they knew they could not handle. Victor knew that if they had to face against something like the minotaur he just fought, it was sure they would lose. With that, he waved his hand lazily to indicate for them to dispatch.

After that, he just dedicated his focus on the corpse before him. After eating everything, Victor left not even a crap on the floor, he finished everything leaving only the bones and innards as usual. "Finally finished this minotaur. Alright, no need to wait anymore." Victor said.

Victor went on to ask the system how much evolution material was needed to create a new body for his second form, and the answer was a million. After eating the minotaur, Victor could only get about 400,000 evolution material from it. With that, he knew he would need to kill a few more.

"Alright, next is to find more of these guys." Victor said as he walked away.

If he wasn't mistaken, such a strong monster would not be walking around in mass around the floor. This would mean their number within the floor is probably fewer than 10. 'Finding another one would be tough.'

Just as Victor was thinking about it, he noticed a familiar figure walking about, coming closer and closer. With his heightened senses, he could recognize the creature. It seems he was lucky, and the minotaur he had just killed ended up spawning close by. "This is just perfect." Victor said.

Calmly, he walked towards the axe felt behind by the last minotaur and grabbed onto it. Some seconds later, the minotaur came into view, and since the pathway Victor was on at the moment was wide and stretched out several metres in length, both Victor and the minotaur could see each other from far away.

On seeing Victor, the minotaur wasted no time and charged towards Victor with all it had. Victor on the other hand had just finished fighting this minotaur, so its style of fighting was still pretty much fresh in his mind, and even without that advantage, he felt he would be able to hold such information even after a long time.

From Victor's expression, he didn't want to waste much time with this minotaur as he did with the last, so he planned to take the fight serious from the start.

Victor grabbed on the great axe tightly with his right hand and just stared at the charging minotaur. When it got into range, Victor planted his feet into the ground, and with all enough strength, Victor swung the axe with both hands aiming at the minotaur's knee, and sure enough he was able to chop off the minotaur's left leg.

As the minotaur fell down, Victor carried through with the weight of his swing and aimed for its neck, but the minotaur was able to move his axe in the way and blocked Victor's attack. The collision between both axes caused a crack in one of them and the wave from the collision carried through the dungeon space.

Using this opportunity, Victor let go of his axe and fell on top the minotaur's body.

'Touch of Death.' Victor said in his mind just before he reached the minotaur.

From then on-

"I might have to do something about this skill. It's very useful, but also very restrictive. A true double edged sword." Victor said, as he swallowed chunks of the minotaur's corpse, tearing them one after the other.

Needless to say, while Victor was collecting evolution material, members of his legion were elsewhere hunting.

[Amadon has levelled up]

The system notification prompted Victor just as he was about to place a chunk of meat in his mouth. "Hm." He said, before swallowing the chunk of flesh.

"Isn't Amadon the one with the highest level? How come he levelled up before the others?" Victor said.

Did this just mean that Amadon was putting in more work than the others, or he was just unlucky? Unlike Victor, his legion were still under the normal system, and didn't have the title of One Who is Favoured by 'The Process'.

"Whatever it is, it's good development.".

Victor continued swallowing flesh and gaining evolution material, until a certain signal entered his mind. It felt weird when it happened, but at the same time he felt a primal instinct, instantly knowing what to do. If he wasn't wrong, Amadon was in danger.

Victor had two choices. He either ignore the signal which would lead to a possible death of his subordinate, or he could abandon the rest of the evolution material before him and go running to his subordinate's side. After thinking about it for some seconds, Victor decided to rush there.

Thinking rationally, he Amadon was nothing special, he could always get a better one, but something else drove him to go. If Amadon was in such danger, it only meant that he was facing something that much stronger, possibly a couple levels above Amadon. "I wonder what it is."

After dashing through the dungeon routes for about a minute, Victor finally arrived at the location where the signal was coming from. With him, the other legion members had just arrived at the scene and were backing Amadon. 'The others just got here too.' Victor said in his mind.

Before he could see the enemy Amadon was facing off against, Victor heard a familiar kind of voice and language. "A human?" Victor said.

The voice was feminine, and sure enough after Victor saw the opponents, he confirmed his suspicion. Before him were two ladies who seemed to be human. One must have been a magician as he was dressed in their typical attire holding a typical staff with a crystal embedded on it. Her dress was white, and if Victor had to guess, he would say she was a healer or a holy magic user.

'No wonder Amadon was losing.' Victor thought. If it was holy magic, then it would deal double damage to Amadon, not to mention the fact that it weakens undead and overall is the perfect counter for them.

Apart from the magician, the other lady seemed to be a fighter or more appropriately a warrior. She wore amour that covered most of her body, leaving the head, joints, and some other places. Unlike the magician, she wielded a fat greatsword. The sword's width was at least as wide as a palm, and if nothing else would be very heavy.

'System.'

[Human Level 80]

[Human Level 83]

'No shit. So this was why Amadon was almost made history.'

Not only the level difference, but also the holy magic or maybe it was healing magic. Looking at the duo, Victor thought of what to do. If they were just normal people, he would have been able to fight against them, but the magician was the problem. Victor might have lessened penalty when it came to matters related to holy magic, but needless to say, it still caused significant damage. Coupled with the warrior, He would be dead before he could kill them both.

[Undead Body]n0𝑣𝗲𝑙𝓊𝓈𝓫.𝑪0𝔪

As an undead, you do not require sleep or rest, and you do not require any sustenance nor are you held back by the need of bodily functions. Your stamina is limitless, and you do not accumulate fatigue. Any injury aside from a critical or fatal head injury will not kill you, and will not hinder your mobility or bodily functions, but damage will still be taken. You are able to survive in extreme conditions of cold and heat, and radiation, up to a certain limit. You will naturally heal your injuries after a period of time, but cannot regain lost body parts. Foreign Body parts can be attached.

-Necrotic/Negative energy is converted to healing/mana supplement

-Healing/Holy magic is converted to damage (Penalty lessened)

-Complete Immunity to sickness and disease

-Complete immunity to psychic attacks

-Complete immunity to poison attacks

-Complete immunity to curses

-(20%) damage from fire type attacks

-(50%) damage received from Holy/Light magic attacks

-Can enter holy grounds. ..

The whole time Victor was doing these analysis, only about 30 seconds had gone by. From the humans' state, he could tell that they hadn't even used much of their strength, as they were in perfect condition.

While both sides stared at each other, Victor took back his legion as they instantly turned into something like a shadowy smoke and crept back into it as they disappeared.

After analyzing the situation, Victor could still see a way to win this fight. If the magician's magic dealt extra damage to him as an undead, it also meant the same for her. Necrotic energy would deal extra damage to her, and since they were humans, he could always just bite them since he wouldn't be needing their evolution material, at least for the time being.

The magician's stats would also be focused on magic than physical attributes, so he would be superior in that regard.

'Should I try my luck?' Victor thought. 'No.'

On second thought, Victor thought to himself. Not all fights have to be done with brute force. Sometimes, the strongest on the battle fields are those who came make adequate tactics and strategy, something he hadn't done for a while. There was no need to risk it.

Obviously, if he was to rush there and attack at that moment and was killed, he would just respawn due to the effects of the dungeon, but whether he would respawn on that floor was the issue. If he was brought back to the first floor that would just be detrimental. This was what he was avoiding.

'I should leave for now. How I wish I had a stealth skill.'

…

'A stealth skill. The ghost gecko.' Victor's mind moved to this creature almost immediately. The system had said something about not 100% certain if the skill could be obtained even after fusing it with another creature or himself, but maybe he would try it now to see.

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200.

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000n0𝓋𝔢𝓵𝔲𝐒𝗯.𝐂0𝓂

-Mantant – 10,000

-Minotuar – 600,000

With these choices, Victor knew just what to do. He walked back as he wandered through the dungeon floor. He had utilized his speed and outran the two ladies giving them not the slightest chance to catch up. The warrior was a strength type, so she couldn't do much, not to talk of the magician.

Victor could remember them as they were part of the team that had entered the dungeon sometime before he started his descent. So that only meant they were separated from the group at that point.

As he walked around looking for a test subject, the test subjects presented themselves. Just ahead of him, Victor noticed a pack of black lycans approaching his location. "Just perfect."

These beasts were nothing for Victor. Without wasting much time, he sped towards them and activated touch of death. In mere seconds, the entire pack was lying dead on the floor. Victor ignored the evolution material before him since he didn't think of them as high grade enough to begin with, he just picked a corpse at random and turned it to an undead as he added it to his legion.

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve]

[Black Lycan has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Black Lycan Level 45]

That very moment, he named the black lycan he had just raised so he could commence evolution.

"You shall be called Wolf." Victor said, and soon felt the connection between them form.

He unsummoned the beast and headed straight into the system's evolution window.

"I wonder what kind of creature would come out of this combination." Victor thought.

After going through the possible combination between the black lycan and the ghost gecko, Victor noticed something immediately. The evolution material he had on the ghost gecko was not enough. There was absolutely no guarantee of the new creature gaining any skill.

It seemed he would have to let this issue go for now. If he does run into them by chance later, he would fight, but there was no reason to go looking for a fight just like that. Besides, levelling up was going to be extremely difficult from now, seeing as he has already started requiring millions of experience points.

But looking at that too, Amadon is level 45 but was able to level up. There was only one explanation Victor could think of. Since his system was different, it was possible his level up condition was also different.

In some manga and novels Victor had read back on earth, there were people who delayed their ascension or breakthrough to amass more and purer mana so that when they broke through, they would be more powerful than their pairs in the same level. Most often than not, these people were able to fight with people of higher rank or level than themselves, and even come out on top sometimes.

'It's possible this is what my system is doing. It would explain why I can exhibit such capabilities.' Victor was sure this was it.

Since he also started from since he was level one, it meant he had been indulging in this legendary art since infantry basically.

Coming back to the black lycan he had just added to his ranks, Victor thought of removing it. It had no special attribute, plus he was sure it was a lower rank creature.

Apart from himself, it was quite clear he needed to get strong creatures around himself. "A dragon would be good." Victor said as he walked away from the corpses.

"Come forth, Wolf." Victor said.

Without being told, Victor could feel it within himself what he needed to do to disband the beast from his legion. With a thought, the beast's body slowly faded away as its flesh rotted away leaving behind bones.

As that was taken care of, Victor headed deeper into the floor. He needed to become stronger, strong enough that he wouldn't need to think twice before attacking any creature before him. The minotaur was a good way to gain a huge amount of experience points at once, so he was looking to find another one or a couple. At times like this, Victor could only wish he had an aggro skill with a large area of effect.

"How do I get such a skill now? Something like that would be extremely useful." Victor said to himself.

He still didn't know of a sure way to get skills, but for now the best way was to evolve and incorporate other creatures into himself. Thinking about this, a thought came to Victor's mind.

"System, is it possible for me to use skills across my different forms?" Victor aksed.

[Yes, though. There are some limitations with some skills]

'Godly.'

If this was so, it meant he would still have access to all his skills even after switching forms to his second form. The most important part of this was the fact that the possibility of gaining a skill after evolution is increased if a proper evolution is done.

Originally, Victor didn't want to alter the form of his current and base form too much, so he left that for the second form. But now, the second just gained a whole new use. It is worthy to be called a testing ground.

Before commencing his plan, Victor would first have to gain enough evolution material to build his second minotaur form. Then, the experimentation would begin proper.

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Finding a minotaur really isn't easy. Victor had been going around for a while now, and all he had encountered were black lycans.

"Shouldn't there be at least more than two monsters in this floor? There should at least be something on the same level as a minotaur or close." Victor exclaimed.

The current floor he was on would be the biggest yet in Victor's opinion. He had been running around for some time now, and still hadn't seen any sign of the end. It was really a big disadvantage that the map device only displayed maps of floor 39 and below. If he had the map of this place, it would have made things much easier.

After running about for about 20 minutes, Victor finally encountered another minotaur, as he caught sight of it from afar. After looking for the minotaur for so long, he wasn't going to waste much time fighting it, so he used his skills. This one was stronger than the two he faced before, as it was a bit higher in level.n0𝐕𝓮𝑙𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝚌0𝓂

[Minotaur Level 90]

The minotaur was no easy target, so killing it wasn't as easy as it sounded on paper. Unlike the other minotaur Victor faced earlier, this one didn't use a weapon. If Victor's intuition was right, it meant this one used it's fists to fight, and this would also mean it was harder to deal with. Hoping nothing unexpected came up, He would just be able to deal with this monster..

Just like the minotaur, Victor was a close combat fighter, so the fact that he had to get up close to be able to attack was going to be a problem since his opponent was also a close combat fighter. Plus, if anything, this one's skin would be tougher since it is something of a martial artist or maybe a monk. (As in profession or Class).

Without stopping, Victor increased his speed and in mere seconds he had gotten within 3 metres of the monster's space. A quick twist of the body enabled Victor to throw a strong kick towards the minotaur's mid section, but sure enough, it was able to block the attack, and even launch a counter.

Boom!

The monster's fist banged into the ground as Victor just managed to dodge by inches. This minotaur would be way harder to deal with Victor could see. It's attacks were almost twice as fast as the previous one, and the power behind it's attacks was very much present. If Victor didn't shift his body out of the way the moment he struck the minotaur in anticipation that it would counter, his body might have been the one that met with the monster's fist.

This fight was going to be very disadvantageous for Victor, if he didn't have a surprise stashed up within him. After avoiding the punch and shifting his body to the side, Victor gained a firm foothold on the ground and putting everything into his right fist, he sent one flying right into the monster's shin bone.

Victor's punch didn't send the monster flying, but it couldn't be said that nothing happened to it. The bone was completely shattered, and caused the minotaur to fall backwards immediately. At least, Victor had provided an advantage for himself, as even if this one was to enter it's rage mode and activate a berserker skill, it still wouldn't be able to move well.

While Victor thought he now had a bit of an advantage, the minotaur completely surprised him. Right before Victor's eyes, the minotaur's leg began healing, and in less than 3 seconds the shattered bone fixed itself and the monster was back on its feet.

'Shit. So this one's berserker mode is replaced with a hack healing ability.'

"No shit, huh?" Victor said, as he repositioned himself and took a firm stance.

The minotaur stood up slowly as if it was sure Victor would wait for it to stand without attacking, and sure enough, that was what Victor did. If there was one thing Victor knew, it was to never follow the rule of waiting for the enemy to transform, but this time he had a valid reason. He wasn't about to attack a monster whose body was behaving weirdly.

As the minotaur got back its feet, its entire body was rumbling, and noticeable waves coursed throughout its skin. This was the same with when the first minotaur was entering berserker mode, but this one seemed a bit different. For one, there was no red energy formed, and its eyes weren't bloodshot.

After it stood up properly, Victor noticed that its size had increased a bit, as its muscles had bulged up all over.

"Physical enhancement? Probably." Victor said after observing the changes the minotaur showed.

As if the insane regenerative ability wasn't bad enough, now he had to face the monster that he would struggle with normally after it's physique had been enhanced. The worst thing that could happen just showed itself.

Seeing how everything was playing out, Victor could think of only one thing that he would be able to use. Now for his plan, he just had to wait for the monster to attack.

Sure enough, it took no longer than a few seconds of both parties staring at each other before the minotaur bore its feet into the ground and propelled itself towards Victor with fearsome speed. In one second, the minotaur that stood several metres away from Victor had gotten a couple metres before him.

'Negative burst.' Victor said in his mind, activating his skill.

As Victor thought, if he was then this skill might not deal much damage to the level 90 minotaur, as it would definitely have a high resistance to magic attacks. But, this wasn't a game, and there was no way to tell how much his attacks affected his opponent.

Following that, Victor began shifting his body out of the way, so that by the he would at least avoid a direct hit. This was also the time to expose his surprise.

Lucky enough for Victor, he just managed to dodge the minotaur's attack, but he was still hit a little bit while mid air, and it destabilized him as he was almost sent tumbling. Even with this, Victor didn't dare open his mouth and disorganize himself.

While he was just beside the minotaur as it was passing him by, out of thin air a great axe appeared in his hand. The minotaur saw the axe, but by that time it was already too late to avoid it. But, this was not worthy of being a threat at all. All the axe would do was cause flesh wound.

Using the same motion just before Victor started spinning from the brush with the minotaur earlier, Victor took out the axe while he was facing the dungeon's ceiling, and by the time he had completed his first spin, he dug his axe deep into the minotaur's back, and it carved a big and deep wound on the minotaur's back.

As soon as Victor's feet touched the wall by the side, he blasted off it straight towards the minotaur, and while the minotaur had stopped and swung its hand towards Victor, he managed to dodge the monster's arm and got behind it. As Victor checked the monster's back, he could still see the wound he caused just now close to the minotaur's shoulder starting to close.

In one jump, he got to the minotaur's back right where the injury was and dug his hands into the open flesh to gain a strong hold. Before the minotaur could even react and try to shake him off, Victor spat the mouthful of spit into the wound and jumped off.

'Let's see. Your regeneration and my rot, which is stronger.'

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'Let's see. Your regeneration and my rot, which is superior.' Victor said, as he got off the minotaur, landing a couple metres off. And for a brief moment there, a faint smirk appeared on his face before disappearing under seconds.

Almost immediately, the minotaur's skin began to rot, and at a rapid rate. Following just a little behind it, the healing factor of the minotaur also kicked in, and began fighting against the rot trying to counter it.

Sure enough, this whole process was painful, and the minotaur possessed no pain reduction skill nor was it a masochist, so it couldn't move for a while there. At this moment, Victor had the perfect opportunity to finish business with the monster, but his curiosity had peaked. The fact that his rot bite was powerful was quite obvious, but just how much strength it had in such a situation was unknown.

Victor stood a few metres away watching the minotaur, seeing the seemingly infinite process of rotting and regeneration of its skin. Victor could imagine the process was extremely painful, but the minotaur was doing a good job of shutting its mouth and bearing the pain.

Even in such predicament, the minotaur still had the strength to lunch itself at Victor, threatening to punch him into the ground, but Victor was able to avoid its attack quite easily. Due to the pain, the minotaur's attack was plenty uncoordinated. After Victor dodged the minotaur's attack, it immediately tried to follow up its attack, but that too proved to be impossible..

Looking at the spot at its back, Victor could see that the rot area had increased, and the regeneration, for some moment there was overpowered. From this, Victor could see that the it took a lot from the minotaur to keep this regenerative process active, and if it was a passive skill, then it was even worse for it as it wouldn't be able to control how much the skill takes. Not like it had a choice in this sort of situation.

Victor could also see the Minotaur's muscles collapsing in on itself. It wasn't too dramatic, but it looked sort of weird to say the least.n0𝓋𝔢𝓵𝔲𝐒𝗯.𝐂0𝓂

After some minutes passed, it was clear which between Victor's rot and the minotaur's regenerative ability which was on the losing end, but just after the rot had gone halfway, something else happened. The minotaur finally succeeded in fighting off the rot and stopped it from spreading, but that was when it had already eaten through halfway of its body, and even after stopping the rot, it couldn't heal the part that had been affected.

"So that's the limit, huh? Not bad." Victor said, as he moved closer to the minotaur.

The minotaur had used all of its energy fighting off the rot, so at that moment, saying it was at its weakest state would be an understatement. All Victor had to do was land a perfect strike to the head once, and that was it for the minotaur.

Victor hastily retrieved the axe he used earlier, and with it severed the monster's body in half, separating the side with the most rot from the rest. He was unsure if the rot would continue after some time, so he just had to be careful.

With that, it was time to feast on the monster's flesh. After some time had passed, Victor was done eating the monster's flesh, and had gained a lot of evolution material from doing so, but it still wasn't enough.

-Minotuar – 600,000 850,000

Victor needed just a little more, and he would be able to create a body for his second form.

After that fight with the brawler minotaur (just referencing that it uses fists), Victor would roam the dungeon floor without finding anything significant. For the most part, he couldn't send out his legion like he had done before since he didn't have the time to deal with a similar situation like the one from before, or something similar.

Victor was starting to think that he would find no other minotaur on this floor unless he waited for the others to respawn, and running into a minotaur on the lower floors wasn't guaranteed. Such strong monsters don't usually inhabit two floors, and can mostly be found only on one floor.

'Maybe I should start heading back now.' Victor thought to himself, but then something caught his attention.

Victor slowed down for a bit, then stopped moving all together. He could hear something, a creature he was yet to encounter, he thought. The sound he was hearing wasn't something he had heard before, so the only conclusion was that it was a monster he hadn't seen before. This thought was enough to stimulate his body forward, if it could.

He immediately changed his course and headed towards the direction of the creature he was hearing. After a minute or two, Victor finally arrived at the place where the creature he had been sensing was, and what he would see there wasn't what he was expecting, not in the least.

[High rank Fire-Imp Level 60]

"A fire imp." Victor said calmly.

Immediately, he hid himself and tried to conceal his presence not letting the monster sense him. The fire-imp was like a large or overgrown crocodile, but instead of hard scales, it was covered in a skin like surface. Its colour was faded red, as it looked like its skin was ash mixed with a bright shade of red, numbing it down.

Such a monster would be a piece of cake for Victor, the only problem was that it was a creature with a very high affinity towards fire, which so happened to be one of Victor's weaknesses. Due to his ability [Undead Body, he would suffer a 20% damage from fire type attacks, be it physical or magical attack. Plain and simple, this fire-imp was something of a natural enemy to Victor.

Regardless of the danger and disadvantages, the fact remained. When danger presents itself, there is always something to gain from it for most times, and this was one of those times. This was also an opportunity.

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After some quick seconds of thinking, Victor had made his decision. The fire-imp might be his natural enemy, but that was only if it could touch him at all. This would work well if the monster didn't possess any ranged attack, or worst an AOE attack. If it had any of those, then it for sure was a big game changer, and a huge disadvantage to Victor. Though Victor wasn't scared of death, he was unsure of what would happen after death.

'A level 60 shouldn't be too hard to deal with.' Victor thought.

He wasted no more time and dashed towards the fire-imp from behind, in attempt to at least catch it off guard. As soon as he got into range, Victor pulled out an axe and in one move split most of the fire-imp's body in two.

'Surely it's not so difficult. As long as I never meet them in groups, everything's good.'

After Victor stored his axe back into his inventory, he went on to eat the monster's corpse and gained some evolution material. Immediately, an idea had popped into his head, and he was sure it would work just fine, and if possible the monster would inherit some skills or skill.

Before anything however, Victor would have to find more of these fire-imps, and that part was a little easy for him. He managed to kill a few more fire-imps, and also ended every encounter with one strike as he was not interested in testing their skills. Now, he was ready to begin.

The last one Victor killed, he did it with his 'Touch of death' skill, causing no injury to its body, and he also didn't eat it.

"Arise."

[You have acquired an undying soldier that will forever serve at your side with unquestionable resolve].

[Fire-Imp has dropped in level due to effects of being reborn]

[Fire-Imp Level 50]

"Alright. You shall be called Pyro."

"Alright then."

Evolution Material:

-Fiery Tailed Wolf – 1000

-Zombie – 15,000

-Dungeon Bat – 5000

-Dark Poisonous Spider – 200

-Giant Forest Snake – 200

-White Mountain Tiger – 500

-Grey Lycan – 4000

-Ghost Gecko – 2000

-Mantant – 10,000

-Minotuar – 850,000

-Fire-Imp – 5000

Victor opened the evolution panel and tried out the possible evolution paths for the fire-imp he just added to his legion. He wanted to join the fire-imp and ghost gecko this time. Victor could only hope that the imp would gain the gecko's skill. For this evolution, Victor allowed the system to use most of the evolution materials he had of the ghost gecko to improve the chances of the imp getting a new skill.

"Start evolution on the fire-imp." Victor said.

[Starting evolution on the Fire-Imp]

[Evolution will now and will take 20 minutes]

[During evolution Fire-Imp cannot be summoned]

With the addition of the fire-imp, Victor had officially acquired a variety of creatures that would fit most of the monster types, and with them, he would not shy away from creating monstrosities.

Victor was going to integrate the fire-imp's high affinity for the fire element into himself and with it reduce his weakness to fire, if not eliminate it completely. The problem was this idea of his was impossible. Such creatures that have a high affinity towards one element or magic in general acquire this trait as a part of them that is deeply rooted into their being. A simple integration wouldn't do the trick. Instead, a proper evolution is the way to go.

Realising this, Victor immediately knew that he had to hold off on forming a second form with the minotaur evolution material. Mixing a hulk sized bipedal cow and a lizard-like creature just didn't sit well. Victor knew he could do whatsoever he pleased with his second form, but it didn't mean he had to do it stupidly or on impulse. 'The minotaur come later.' Victor said as he looked down at the corpse of a fire-imp he had just killed.

'System, how much evolution material will be enough to create my second form from a fire-imp?' Victor inquired mentally.n0𝐕𝓮𝑙𝓊𝓈𝒷.𝚌0𝓂

[The amount needed is 200,000]

"Ok? Not as demanding as the minotaur."

Victor went on to hunt for more fire-imps as he now wanted to create a new form. After some hours had passed, Victor was able to amass over a hundred fire-imp evolution material and was getting close to his goal of 200,000. He encountered some groups of fire-imps that moved in groups of about 4 or 5, and facing them was a bit damaging to his health. Their fire was very effective against Victor, and caused a bit of reduction to his total HP, and since they weren't physical fighters, their fire magic was quite strong.

"If they didn't look like large non-scaled lizards, I would say they were mages." Victor said, as he observed his HP. 'Not like they can't be mages since their lizards anyway.'

Hp: 2,005/2,215

Mp: 2,000/2,000

Victor did a good job avoiding their magic, but his weakness to it made the little that got to him affect him more than it should have.

"Hmp. If I'm lucky, the HP might just fill back up by itself." Victor said, with a hint of sarcasm. Of course he was fully aware this wasn't some kind of game world. There might be systems, levels, and monsters, but it was also quite clear that this weren't all part of some game. Not only did corpses rot after death and not disappear, it was quite clear how much consequences ones action had.

Victor continued looking around for more fire-imps, and for some tens of minutes of searching he couldn't find any. He was starting to think that he might have wondered out of their territory and was about to turn back, but he had a thought to just check a little more before he gave up.

"It's that thing again." A voice said from above a platform as Victor walked into a separate pathway that lead towards another part of the dungeon floor.

This voice of course, came from the human mage he had met earlier.

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